Posted on 11/14/2009 1:43:27 PM PST by Former Military Chick
The House-approved healthcare overhaul would raise the costs of healthcare by $289 billion over the next 10 years, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan, independent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The long-awaited report sent to lawmakers late Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services should serve as a "stark warning to every Republican, Democrat and Independent worried about the future of this nation," Ways and Means ranking member Dave Camp (R-Mich.) said in a statement on Saturday.
Though House Republicans pressed to have this analysis completed before the lower chamber voted on the Democrats' sweeping healthcare reform bill last week, it was not ready until late Friday.
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) highlighted the report on Saturday in a written statement. "This report once again discredits Democrats assertions that their $1.3 trillion government takeover of health care will lower costs, and it confirms that this bill violates President Obamas promise to bend the cost curve. Its now beyond dispute that their bill will raise costs, which is exactly what the American people dont want."
Republicans predicted that if the CMS numbers were available last Saturday when the House voted on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's healthcare bill, the slim majority that supported the measure 220-215 could have been reversed.
This report confirms what virtually every independent expert has been saying: Speaker Pelosis health care bill will increase costs, not decrease them. I hope my colleagues in the Senate heed CMS findings and refuse to rush ahead until any bill under consideration can be certified to actually reduce health care costs," Camp said.
You have more faith in the wisdom of sub rosa communists than I do.
It is amazing if you do a word search on the last health care bill that was passed in the house the word “physician” is used 27 times.
Do you or anyone else find something so fundamentally wrong with a bill that has “health” in the title but has little input from doctor's across the country. (even if the AMA says they support the bill, I have serious doubts of their truth when it comes to their entire membership)
Of course it will. It was never about bringing down the costs down. They could do that with one easy step. Insurance can be bought across state lines. THAT is the main thing that keeps costs up. The insurance companies know they have you right where they want you. You can’t shop around.
It’s a power grab, see my tag line.
I'm willing to wager that this psycho dreams of the day when he can stand on a marble reviewing stand he has had built beside the paved over Washington Mall and watches his racially sorted Civilian Militia march by waving torches...
They don’t care cuz they don’t have to pay it - we will (if passed).
As this came out on a Saturday, we should repost on Monday so more people will be able to read it.
great idea, it is also in the Politico and I did send a link to Drudge not sure if it is important enough for his webpage
“...not sure if it is important enough for his webpage...”
Should be.
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I really don’t want to pay for dead beats. I don’t want to pay for preexisting fat people with diabetes . I don’t want to pay for illegal aliens who can’t even read or speak English. I plan to to go to American doctors in Mexico and Costa Rica and never pay these bastard a dime.
After We the People, doctors are the last ones the liberals in congress want to have input. Just like health care is the last thing they’re considering as they write this monstrous, abusive bill.
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