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"Do Republicans want to propose changes in entitlements?" he added.
In the intense negotiations with Mr. Boehner, Mr. Obama became the first top Democratic leader in modern times to consider significant changes in entitlements.
Specifically, they hope the president will insist that every dollar of spending cuts the supercommittee demands be accompanied by a dollar of higher revenues, and to say that changes in entitlements and taxes are joined at hip.
So Mr. Lowenstein stresses the need to make decisions by "the end of this year" about major changes in entitlements such as increasing the age for Medicare beneficiaries (which will increase the number of uninsured and up the ante for any national health care program) and means-testing Social Security.
The Senate's budget wouldn't slow spending growth as much as the House proposal, and would replace the sequester cuts with a combination of tax increases, defense cuts and some changes in entitlements.
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The panel's recommendations could include changes in entitlement programs and tax laws.
He compared making changes in entitlement programs to the bipartisan Social Security overhaul in the 1980s and the reshaping of welfare policy during the Clinton administration.
Many Republicans will continue to resist any proposal that can be read as increasing taxes, and many Democrats will balk at changes in entitlement programs and spending cuts.
This is what Mr. Boehner said he told the president: "I'd put revenue on there if we had real changes in entitlement programs.
But they could also make it harder as empowered Democrats, including some elected on liberal platforms, resist significant changes in entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
As Budget Committee chairman, Mr. Ryan has proposed huge changes in entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid, changes that would help the federal government predict and control its costs but could shift some costs to beneficiaries and to states.
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