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Fausta's Blog: Two-point-six trillion dollars
Doug Ross @ Journal: PelosiCare: Reaction Roundup (Palin, Sowell, Anchoress, Dr. Helen, Jacobson, Locke, Doc Zero)
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"Diff btw promised benefits, expected revenues for Soc.Sec., Medicare $107 trillion - 2x annual GDP of entire world." http://bit.ly/2Jsdmo 18 days ago |
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Doctor Zero: Maybe this time… http://tinyurl.com/ya7p9ez #tcot #hhrs #hcr 21 days ago |
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RT @hotairblog: Maybe this time… http://bit.ly/kzShu #hcr #ScrapTheBill 21 days ago |
Two-point-six trillion dollars
Fausta's Blog —
... spending in the first ten years. Since most of the spending in the House bill does not fully go into effect until 2014, the 10-year cost estimates based on the preliminary CBO score (for years 2010 through 2019) only account for six years of new spending under the plan. Once it is implemented (over a full 10-year window from years 2014 to 2023), the giant House health bill carries a price tag of $2.4 trillion, or as much as $2.6 trillion with the “doc fix.”
Or, as Doctor Zero puts it,
House bill transitions from front-loaded tax hikes to full ...
PelosiCare: Reaction Roundup (Palin, Sowell, Anchoress, Dr. Helen, Jacobson, Locke, Doc Zero)
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... : What is so wrong with the current medical system in the United States that we are being urged to rush headlong into a new government system that we are not even supposed to understand, because this legislation is to be rushed through Congress before even the Senators and Representatives have a chance to read it? ...Will a government-run medical system make these things better or worse? This very basic question seldom seems to get asked, much less answered. [image] Maybe this time... ...
Definition of Insanity
what if? —
... We all know what it is. Continuing to perpetrate the same activity, yet hoping - again and again - that this time, the outcome will be different.
Does anyone really believe what Congress is telling us about the costs of their potential health bill?
No other Big Government program has ever stayed within an order of magnitude of the promises made when it was signed into law. Medicare originally cost about $3 billion, when it began in 1965, and was projected to cost about $12 billion by 1990, adjusted for ...
