Why is the House Voting First? Price Tag Hits $1.2 Trillion witout Doc Fix — $1.45 With Doc Fix
By: Dan Perrin (Diary) | November 3rd at 11:53 AM |
The news keeps getting tougher for the House Leadership in their irrational quest to pass their ObamaCare bill. First, the Associated Press is reporting the bill will cost $1.2 Trillion without the doctor fix of $250 billion. The new total will be $1.45 trillion — because the House Leadership intends to create a “self-executing rule” that would pull the doctor fix apart from the House | Read More »
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The Pelosi Bill: Cost, Mandates and Taxes
By: Dan Perrin (Diary) | October 31st at 08:52 AM |
MEMORANDUM EXCLUSIVE FOR REDSTATERS FROM: Michael Hammond RE: The Pelosi Bill -The real cost of the bill is at least $1.3 trillion (the CBO score, plus the “doc fix”) –- and probably much, much more. -The absolute minimum increase in the deficit would be $150 billion. You can probably add to this most of the $426 billion in supposed Medicare “cuts,” plus the substantial overruns | Read More »
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The Real Problem with Health Care Reform is the Mandates, Not the Public Option
By: Dan Perrin (Diary) | August 23rd at 01:12 PM |
Periodically, I will be posting writings by Honeymoon with a Black Widow, here is the first: An increasing danger with health care reform is that President Obama will make strategic concessions with respect to the public option and the “millionaires’ tax” — leaving in place the so called non-controversial items like the individual mandate, outlawing pre-existing conditions from being considered by insurance companies, and, perhaps, | Read More »