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  • Prescriptions for disaster: The true costs of the health-care bills

    11/05/2009 2:47:46 AM PST · by Scanian · 2 replies · 364+ views
    NY Post ^ | November 5, 2009 | BENJAMIN E. SASSE & JEFFREY H. ANDERSON
    Don't buy the claim that the Sen ate health-care bill is substantially more moderate than the House measure. While Speaker Nancy Pelosi's legislation is even more onerous than the package created by Sen. Max Baucus and now championed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the larger story is how similar the two Democratic bills are. First, we need to get past the misleading accounting games. Each bill is routinely "scored" for its 10-year costs from 2010-19. Yet this includes several years when the spending wouldn't yet have kicked in. According to the Congressional Budget Office, fully 99.9 percent of the...