[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2073]
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  SA 1057. Mr. NELSON (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Casey, and Mr. 
Schumer) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the 
concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the congressional 
budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and 
setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 
through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE CONTINUED 
                   STRENGTH OF MEDICARE ADVANTAGE.

       It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) the changes to payments to Medicare Advantage plans 
     enacted as part the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
     Act and retained as part of this resolution on the budget 
     have resulted, since 2010, in an increase in Medicare 
     Advantage enrollment of 42 and a decrease in Medicare 
     Advantage premiums by 6 percent; and
       (2) the Congressional Budget Office projects that in ten 
     years, 45 percent of Medicare beneficiaries will be enrolled 
     in a Medicare Advantage plan.
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