CBO Puts House Health Bill Total Cost At $1.055 Trillion

Nasdaq.com ^ | October 29, 2009 | By Martin Vaughan

[george76]

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

[cranked]

Not one thin dime will add to the deficit....

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

They didn't have the votes if they do I'd like to know what was promised.

[lurk]

Is that all? Shoo, that aint expensive. What’s a little ol’ trillion dollars?

Let’s vote!

Free health care. All it’ll cost you is your future.

[goldstategop]

If you can afford all the new taxes, Obamacare is a bargain!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[george76]

[Parley Baer]

“re-write would extend health insurance to 96% of the nonelderly U.S. population”

Nonelderly? Obama and Co. are throwing grandma and grandpa under the bus.

[concerned about politics]

and spend $1.055 trillion to do so.

Oboma said he wouldn't sign a bill that increased the deficit in any way. That means the democrats are going to have to steal the money from somewhere else. Guess who's going to end up paying for it? Do you have a job?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Round 9]

If you want the true cost, multiply this pricetag by three.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[goldstategop]

By leaving Medicare to die on the vine through massive cuts in reimbursements to doctors. That's what the Democrats don't tell the Geritol Crowd.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

We will go broke and welfare recipients will get their mortgage paid a new roof and windows for their home (SEE THE GREEN OR SOME SUCH PORK BILL) and a free cell phone https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/home.aspx

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[The_Reader_David]

The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday a U.S. House health-care system re-write would extend health insurance to 96% of the nonelderly U.S. population by 2019, and spend $1.055 trillion to do so.

Penalties imposed on individuals who did not purchase insurance, and employers who did not offer coverage to their workers, would raise $161 billion over that time-frame. That brings the net cost of the bill to $894 billion through 2019, CBO said.

Um, no, the cost would still be $1.005 trillion, it's just that $161 billion of that would be paid for by fines that deprive people of their liberty to chose to not be insured or try to run a business which doesn't offer employees health insurance (not health care--only physicians, hospitals and the like provide health care). The remaining $894 billion would be paid for by raising taxes on the 49% who still pay them (I know it's 53% now, but just wait) and printing money, thereby ruining everyone with inflation.

[spectre]

This bill is nothing less than a sham.

The Sham-Wow bill..

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