dmarron.com - 26 days ago
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As I’ve noted in a series of posts, there is often great confusion about the cost of the health bill being considered by Congress.
Yesterday, for example, many commentators were saying that the coverage expansions in the new House health bill would cost $894 billion over ten years, even ...
abcnews.go.com - 22 days ago
redstate.com - 25 days ago
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redstate.com —
The totals below, I am told by the
Heritage Foundation, do NOT include the $250 billion extra...
spending on Medicare to buy off the American Medical Association for their support of the U.S. House bill. The Democratic House Leadership has ...
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CBO: New House Health Bill Spending Estimate, $3 ...
news.yahoo.com - 29 days ago
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news.yahoo.com —
AP - The health care bill headed for
a vote in the House this week costs $1.2...
trillion or more over a decade, according to numerous Democratic officials and figures contained in an analysis by congressional budget experts, far higher than the $900 ...
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AP sources: House health bill totals $1.2 trillion
(AP)
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The $1.5 Trillion Fraud -- By: Michael F. Cannon
Articles on National Review Online —
... -- around $400 billion less than the CBO actually projected. We’ve seen this kind of trickery plenty in recent years; to suppress an inconvenient cost estimate of its proposed Medicare drug entitlement, the Bush administration threatened to fire Medicare’s chief actuary. ...
Three Strikes against Obamacare -- By: The Editors
Articles on National Review Online —
... Finally, President Obama promised that health-care reform would not add “one thin dime” to the federal deficit or impose new taxes on the middle class, but the most honest estimates of the program’s cost is $1.3 trillion. There may be modest cuts, true -- but, given that our government operates in habitual deficit, that still means either $1.3 trillion in taxes on somebody or $1.3 trillion added to the national debt. Neither option looks very attractive. Democrats habitually promise to confine tax hikes to “the rich,” but economist ...
The House Health Care Vote
QandO —
... says it will be about 3 trillion over 10 years. I’ve seen reports from other organizations saying 2 to 2.5 trillion. Donald Marron lays out his argument with a handy dandy chart for 1.3 trillion. Once caveat to his analysis – his chart shows the “doc fix” at “$0″ dollars. That’s because they plan to pass the $250 billion dollar doctor buy off in a separate bill so it’s not included in the 894 billion faux cost they’re trying to sell. That brings his 1.3 up to 1.6 trillion. The point, of course, is no ...
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article.nationalreview.com 11 days ago — S en. Harry Reid needs 60 Senate votes to pass his health-care bill and, as Jonathan Karl of ABC News reported last night , is attempting to bribe Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana to be the 60th vote by shoveling money into her state. His bribe takes ...
Sources: House health bill totals $1.2 trillion over 10 years
(AP)
news.yahoo.com 28 days ago — AP - The health care bill headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 trillion or more over a decade, according to numerous Democratic officials and figures contained in an analysis by congressional budget experts, far higher than the $900 ...
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