Public Option
Commentary
The Republican War Still Rages
National Public Radio, November 23, 2009 Two weeks ago on November 7, the House voted 220 to 215 in favor of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 1,900-page, trillion-dollar health-care bill. On Saturday, the Senate voted 60 to 39 to commence the health-care debate on Senator Harry Reid’s 2,074-page bill that will end ...
Commentary
Condition Serious but Not Hopeless
An NRO Symposium Harry Reid scored a victory Saturday night. And part of the line of argument from those urging that senators vote against the motion to proceed Saturday night was: The bill is not likely to get better from here on in. So is it over? Abortion, high costs ...
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
California
Why California’s “Two-Plan” Does Not Support the “Public Option”
Last month, Christina Romer, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, made a presentation at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. In response to a question about whether a so-called “public option” for health insurance would increase competition and reduce costs, ...
Health Care
Conservative Women Reject Government Takeover of Health Care
MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: Women Reject Government Takeover of Healthcare and the “Public Option” RE: Women have largely been excluded from the healthcare discussion in a meaningful way. A new poll just released by the Independent Women’s Forum indicates that women voters largely enjoy their own healthcare coverage, do not ...
The Republican War Still Rages
National Public Radio, November 23, 2009 Two weeks ago on November 7, the House voted 220 to 215 in favor of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 1,900-page, trillion-dollar health-care bill. On Saturday, the Senate voted 60 to 39 to commence the health-care debate on Senator Harry Reid’s 2,074-page bill that will end ...
Condition Serious but Not Hopeless
An NRO Symposium Harry Reid scored a victory Saturday night. And part of the line of argument from those urging that senators vote against the motion to proceed Saturday night was: The bill is not likely to get better from here on in. So is it over? Abortion, high costs ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why California’s “Two-Plan” Does Not Support the “Public Option”
Last month, Christina Romer, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, made a presentation at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. In response to a question about whether a so-called “public option” for health insurance would increase competition and reduce costs, ...
Conservative Women Reject Government Takeover of Health Care
MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: Women Reject Government Takeover of Healthcare and the “Public Option” RE: Women have largely been excluded from the healthcare discussion in a meaningful way. A new poll just released by the Independent Women’s Forum indicates that women voters largely enjoy their own healthcare coverage, do not ...
