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Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News: Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost Nobody (CBO Report)
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Wonk Room: GOP Health Plan Would Allow For ‘Sweatshop Insurance’
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CBO: Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Nobody http://bit.ly/2VYL5x 15 days ago |
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Read both sides of wats offered for healthcare, CBO: Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Nobody http://bit.ly/2VYL5x 16 days ago |
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RT @MzYun: Just in case you missed what the CBO had 2 say: Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost Nobody http://bit.ly/vDwXH 18 days ago |
Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost Nobody (CBO Report)
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... nearly 80 percent of total private premiums, the amendment would lower average insurance premiums in 2016 by zero to 3 percent compared with amounts under current law, according to CBO's estimates. The figures are presented for 2016 as an illustrative example." The GOP bill does require less new government spending, but that's what you get when you don't insure anybody. And though it does reduce the deficit, it does so by billions less than the Democrats' bill does. Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/republican-h...
Simple As That
Talking Points Memo —
New House Republican health care bill saves money by insuring almost no one.
Fine Print
Talking Points Memo —
... We're hearing a lot today about the House Republican health care reform alternative bill. Less mention of the CBO announcing that it saved money by not covering any new people. ...
GOP Health Plan Would Allow For ‘Sweatshop Insurance’
Wonk Room —
... As Ward goes on to explain, “companies can simply designate the Northern Marianas as the ‘primary State’ for their plan, or since it is closer the Virgin Islands and then have those governments be the sole regulator. And given the record of corruption in the N. Marianas and the willingness of various Caribbean and Atlantic Island nations to let themselves be used as off-shore banking and tax shelter entities you can bet Aetna and WellPoint are slavering at the prospect of ‘basing’ their plans out of a PO Box on some tropical ...
HCR House Debate: Hissy Fits on an Historic Day
Daily Kos —
... Once that's done, general debate on the 1,900-page bill will last about four hours. Next up will be the abortion amendment, and then Republicans will have an hour to present and debate their substitute bill. (For more on that, read this.) ...
A Question
Fired Up! Missouri —
... Did all of the Republicans who hyperventilated about reading every word in the Democratic leadership's health care bill read every page of the GOP health plan before ...
Albuquerque Journal: Hawking the GOP Line on Health Insurance Reform
Democracy for New Mexico —
... on Capitol hill that included a photo banner linking the effect of the Dem plan to a pile of dead bodies at the Nazi death camp at Dachau, Pence might be overreaching just a bit in his assessment. The article also ignores the fact that the GOP "reform" plan was rated as pretty much useless by the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation: ...
