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@st3phen Your team's plan didn't even pass the laugh test, so forgive me if I don't take your $39M seriously. http://bit.ly/2npuUd 13 days ago |
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What if somebody doesn't want insurance? It's being shoved down their throat. RT @supersetgreg: @Lilbets just read. http://bit.ly/43uxlx 13 days ago |
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Glad Boehner doesn't want to "bankrupt" his children. Wouldn't know it from the bill he introduced. http://tinyurl.com/yhxav3m 13 days ago |
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parabellum It's reassuring to hear the statists giving so much newfound edification to the CBO. Armed with such strong bipartisan credibility, this should take the whole socialized medicine threat off the table for another 16 years or so.
EPIC GOP Health Insurance FAIL
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed —
The GOP plan was just obliterated by the CBO estimate, which shows that it will barely keep up with population growth in terms of reducing the number of uninsured over the coming years and will actually cost MORE than the Democratic Plan in the House. Well, I guess that's what happens when you give away BILLIONS to the insurance industry. Ezra has a great summary here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.c...
GOP Health Care Plan Pulverized by the CBO
Firedoglake —
... – $68 billion in deficit reduction by 2019
The “fiscal conservatives” reduce the deficit LESS than the Democrats in the budget window, under their plan. And in the large-group market, where 80% of Americans get their private insurance, there would be a 0-3% reduction in the cost of their premiums; in other words, almost nothing (although that’s a preliminary figure that CBO doesn’t stand behind very aggressively).
Ezra Klein notes: ...
The Politics of the House Republican Plan -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru
The Corner on National Review Online —
Ezra Klein thinks (and sneers) that the CBO score is a disaster for House Republicans. I'm not so sure. He writes, "The Democratic bill, in other words, covers 12 times as many people and saves $36 billion more than the Republican plan." But are voters more concerned about the effect of a plan on the uninsured and the budget, or on their own costs (in taxes and premiums)? ...
CBO Scores House Republican's Health Care Bill
Fired Up! Missouri —
... this morning about a small slice of the Congressional Budget Office's initial look at their health care bill. But they're not sharing the whole picture, of course. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein breaks it down: ...
Don’t Know? Don’t Care? Or Don’t Care To Know?
The Republic of T. —
... (but might make it worse), and (according to the CBO) doesn’t do much to fix the deficit conservatives say they’re so concerned about. ...
Digest for November 4th through November 5th
The Republic of T. —
Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for November 4th through November 5th:
Andy Ostroy: A "Republican Renaissance?" Yeah, and I Hear the Mullet's Coming Back Too" –
Conservatives still think you're already over-insured –
Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan –
Op-Ed Columnist: Unhealthy America –
Conservative equals crazy – ...
Republican HCR Plan: Worse than You Thought
Daily Kos —
... to find affordable insurance under their own proposal, should they chose to give up their government-sponsored plans. In fact, only 3 million people of the nearly 48 million uninsured Americans would be covered. And in fact, by 2019, 52 million nonelderly Americans would be uninsured under the Republican plan, according to the CBO. So the Republican plan essentially reflects the status quo, barely keeping up with population growth. Ezra has the basic comparison between the Democratic and Republican plans. The Democratic ...
Jon Voight’s View: ‘45,000′ at Bachman Tea Party
Taylor Marsh —
... Pres. Obama showed up at the press briefing today touting the endorsement of the House bill by the AARP and the AMA, while the CBO absolutely eviscerated the Republican’s “plan.” Meanwhile, you’ve got dueling protests on the left and right, with people arrested at Sen. Joe Lieberman’s office. ...
They Got Nothing… Except the Media
Balloon Juice —
Why is this not a bigger story:
Late last night, the Congressional Budget Office released its initial analysis of the health-care reform plan that Republican Minority Leader John Boehner offered as a substitute to the Democratic legislation. CBO begins with the baseline estimate that 17 percent of legal, non-elderly residents won’t have health-care insurance in 2010. In 2019, after 10 years of the Republican plan, CBO estimates that …17 percent of legal, non-elderly residents won’t have health-care insurance. ...
Dueling Health Care Plans
Liberal Values —
... The Republicans felt they had to come up with a counter plan rather than vote against the Democratic plan without having anything. What they came up with was worse than no plan. Ezra Klein reviewed the Congressional Budget Office’s evaluation of the plan noting how it compared to the Democratic Plan: “The Democratic bill, in other words, covers 12 times as many people and saves $36 billion more than the Republican plan.” ...
So the Republican health-care plan is -- surprise, surprise -- an abysmal failure
The Reaction —
... As Ezra Klein explains, the House GOP's new plan, presented as an alternative to what the Democrats have offered, falls... well... a tad short: ...
links for 2009-11-06
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Ezra Klein: Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan - Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan ...
Jobless Rate Hits 26-Year High: Does Obama Have an Economic Team? Where’s Their Jobs Program?
Firedoglake —
... With the Republicans now completely irrelevant (see their “health reform plan”) and running from all governing responsibility, all the President’s attention should be directed at helping Congressional Democratic leaders ...
Republican Health Care Still an Oxymoron
The Mahablog —
... I have read that the bill also allows people to purchase insurance across state lines. The bill does not require insurance companies to insure people with pre-existing conditions, nor would it stop them from dumping policyholders. It does allow states to create high-risk pools for people who are hard to insure, meaning only the wealthy in those high-risk pools could afford to purchase the insurance.
The Congressional Budget Office gave it a D, however. Ezra Klein explains,
CBO begins with the baseline estimate that 17 percent of ...
Mocking the GOP Health Care Plan
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... When he talks about the Republican plan "leaving people behind," Miller is referring to the Congressional Budget Office's scoring of the plan. The CBO found that the GOP plan would save money because it doesn't actually extend insurance coverage to any of the 17 percent of legal, non-elderly Americans who the CBO thinks will be without health insurance in 2010. In fact, most of the Republican plan centers around reforms that would make the health insurance industry work ...
