Health Care
Commentary
Chart: The Real 10 Year Cost of Reid’s Health Care Bill Is $2.5 Trillion
The Democrats assert that their Senate bill would cost $848 billion over ten years (2010 to 2019). But almost all of those costs would accrue from 2014-onward. Congressional Budget Office projections show that in the bill’s true first 10 years (2014 to 2023), it would cost $1.8 trillion. But it ...
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Healthcare Bill Advances in Senate, Despite Receiving Failing Grade from Health Experts; Democrats Block Filibuster in Party-Line Vote
OpenMarket.org, November 21, 2009 The healthcare bill is on the verge of passing the Senate, despite the fact that it has received a failing grade from healthcare experts like the Dean of Harvard Medical School, and the fact that it will increase taxes, deficits, and medical costs, while reducing lifesaving ...
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Democratic Senators Should Read the Polls
People can dismiss this as Fox News if they want, but it was Fox News in June too. And what has President Obama been doing since then? Health care, health care, bowing to foreign leaders, and more health care. Why would people be so opposed to the president’s $1.8 trillion ...
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Republicans Can’t Afford to Parrot the Democrats’ False Numbers
The bill’s real first ten years are from 2014 to 2023, during which time the Congressional Budget Office says the $1.8-trillion bill would raise Americans’ taxes by $892 billion, would funnel $802 billion out of Medicare, and — if it didn’t follow through on its pledge to cut doctors’ payments ...
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Truly a turkey
‘Reform’ bill stuffed with costs Just in time for Thanksgiving, Sen. Harry Reid has given us a giant turkey of a health-care bill. At 2,074 pages and more than 370,000 words, it’s officially “scored” as costing $849 billion over 10 years — $400 million per page, or $2.3 million per ...
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Health Insurance Rates Soar in Oregon
Not discussed is the role of mandatory benefits, which the Oregon legislature has been laying on to health plans: hearing aids, and oral anti-cancer drugs (which was imposed without the legally required cost analysis). Are these worth what they cost? We’ll never know, because the legislature has decided that people ...
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The Audacity of Senator Reid’s Health-Care Bill
With Nancy Pelosi’s House bill having passed on November 7 by a vote of 220 to 215 with only one Republican in support, we are all now waiting with bated breath to see what will happen to Sen. Harry Reid’s 2,074-page bill, which was introduced on November 18 at a ...
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Roadmap to Victory
Providing a contrast would best expose the weaknesses of the Democratic health bills. By proposing a health-care bill of their own, Senate Republicans can throw the extraordinary weaknesses of the Democratic bills into stark relief. In the wake of the Congressional Budget Office’s recent scoring of aspects of the House ...
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Reid’s fuzzy math
New York Post, November 19, 2009 New York Post, November 20, 2009* Real Clear Politics, November 20, 2009 ‘Reform’ bill’s true cost is twice advertised price Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate’s newest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same ...
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Ohio To Destroy Access to Individual Health Insurance?
This will attract only the sickest of the sick to apply for individual coverage – after they’ve already been diagnosed. Remarkably, the bill also has the positive reform of allowing (requiring?) employers which do not offer coverage to use IRS Section 125 to permit their employees to use pre-tax dollars ...
Chart: The Real 10 Year Cost of Reid’s Health Care Bill Is $2.5 Trillion
The Democrats assert that their Senate bill would cost $848 billion over ten years (2010 to 2019). But almost all of those costs would accrue from 2014-onward. Congressional Budget Office projections show that in the bill’s true first 10 years (2014 to 2023), it would cost $1.8 trillion. But it ...
Healthcare Bill Advances in Senate, Despite Receiving Failing Grade from Health Experts; Democrats Block Filibuster in Party-Line Vote
OpenMarket.org, November 21, 2009 The healthcare bill is on the verge of passing the Senate, despite the fact that it has received a failing grade from healthcare experts like the Dean of Harvard Medical School, and the fact that it will increase taxes, deficits, and medical costs, while reducing lifesaving ...
Democratic Senators Should Read the Polls
People can dismiss this as Fox News if they want, but it was Fox News in June too. And what has President Obama been doing since then? Health care, health care, bowing to foreign leaders, and more health care. Why would people be so opposed to the president’s $1.8 trillion ...
Republicans Can’t Afford to Parrot the Democrats’ False Numbers
The bill’s real first ten years are from 2014 to 2023, during which time the Congressional Budget Office says the $1.8-trillion bill would raise Americans’ taxes by $892 billion, would funnel $802 billion out of Medicare, and — if it didn’t follow through on its pledge to cut doctors’ payments ...
Truly a turkey
‘Reform’ bill stuffed with costs Just in time for Thanksgiving, Sen. Harry Reid has given us a giant turkey of a health-care bill. At 2,074 pages and more than 370,000 words, it’s officially “scored” as costing $849 billion over 10 years — $400 million per page, or $2.3 million per ...
Health Insurance Rates Soar in Oregon
Not discussed is the role of mandatory benefits, which the Oregon legislature has been laying on to health plans: hearing aids, and oral anti-cancer drugs (which was imposed without the legally required cost analysis). Are these worth what they cost? We’ll never know, because the legislature has decided that people ...
The Audacity of Senator Reid’s Health-Care Bill
With Nancy Pelosi’s House bill having passed on November 7 by a vote of 220 to 215 with only one Republican in support, we are all now waiting with bated breath to see what will happen to Sen. Harry Reid’s 2,074-page bill, which was introduced on November 18 at a ...
Roadmap to Victory
Providing a contrast would best expose the weaknesses of the Democratic health bills. By proposing a health-care bill of their own, Senate Republicans can throw the extraordinary weaknesses of the Democratic bills into stark relief. In the wake of the Congressional Budget Office’s recent scoring of aspects of the House ...
Reid’s fuzzy math
New York Post, November 19, 2009 New York Post, November 20, 2009* Real Clear Politics, November 20, 2009 ‘Reform’ bill’s true cost is twice advertised price Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate’s newest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same ...
Ohio To Destroy Access to Individual Health Insurance?
This will attract only the sickest of the sick to apply for individual coverage – after they’ve already been diagnosed. Remarkably, the bill also has the positive reform of allowing (requiring?) employers which do not offer coverage to use IRS Section 125 to permit their employees to use pre-tax dollars ...
