WASHINGTON -- 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 billion cited by President Barack Obama as a price tag for his reform plan.
While the Congressional Budget Office has put the cost of expanding coverage in the legislation at roughly $1 trillion, Democrats added billions more on higher spending for public health, a reinsurance program to hold down retiree health costs, payments for preventive services and more.
Many of the additions are designed to improve benefits or ease access to coverage in government programs. The officials who provided overall cost estimates did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss them.
a piece of crap would be accurate!
ReplyDeleteOBAMACARE MORE DANGEROUS TO AMERICA THAN A TERRORIST ATTACK!
ReplyDeleteRep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) warned on the House floor today that the country has more to fear from health care reform than from terrorism.
WASHINGTON -- 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 billion cited by President Barack Obama as a price tag for his reform plan.
ReplyDeleteWhile the Congressional Budget Office has put the cost of expanding coverage in the legislation at roughly $1 trillion, Democrats added billions more on higher spending for public health, a reinsurance program to hold down retiree health costs, payments for preventive services and more.
Many of the additions are designed to improve benefits or ease access to coverage in government programs. The officials who provided overall cost estimates did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss them.
At least Nancy is providing each member of Congress with 2,000 pieces of toilet paper!
ReplyDeleteWhere do people get the ideal that it is the government's job to provide them health care coverage.
ReplyDeleteGet a job, get a life, get your own health care coverage.
The GOP plan to make health care more accessible and cheaper is as far as any government plan should go.