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The conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, in today’s Morning Bell reacted to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) announcement that the health care legislation he is drafting will include a government-run health insurance plan by saying that it doesn’t matter what vehicle he chose. Op-outs, co ops, and triggers all lead to the same [...]
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With Halloween right around the corner, this is the season for scary things. One of the scariest things I’ve see recently appeared on the pages of the Wall Street Journal. It had to do with the ability of Congress to predict the cost of health care entitlement programs.
In an opinion piece entitled Health Costs and [...]
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The Galen Institute today released new survey results showing overwhelming opposition to the individual mandate and other key components of health reform legislation Congress is considering.
“These findings illustrate strong opposition to fundamental aspects of the bills moving through Congress,” said Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner. “People don’t want to be forced to buy insurance they [...]
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The Kaiser Family Foundation has come out with a nifty tool to illustrate premiums and government assistance under the types of reform proposals being considered in Congress. The online calculator works for people under age 65 who purchase coverage on their own in an Exchange or Gateway and are not covered through their employer, Medicare [...]
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$774 billion – the estimated credits and subsidies to be provided through the insurance exchanges, increased net outlays for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and tax credits for small employers.
$215 billion – the revenues expected from the excise tax on high-premium insurance plans.
$20 billion – the estimated penalty payments made by uninsured [...]
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The New York Times is carrying an article this morning saying that two of the three Republicans in a small group called the “Gang of Six” who are trying to forge a bipartisan compromise on health care have requested numerous major changes in a proposal drafted by the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, reducing [...]
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Could this bill, with its proposed expansion of an already unsustainable entitlement program, just be a way of softening up the opposition for what appears to be a bit tamer bill that is expected to emerge from the Senate Finance Committee?
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Yesterday, on this blog, I referred to the national healthcare reform debate as being like a chess game with each side making moves in turn that will eventually lead to the final outcome.
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Time moves quickly inside the Beltway. It was just last week that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told a press briefing that Congressional leaders “will get to this a little later,” referencing the creation of any new government-run insurance program.
Apparently “a little later” was yesterday when Senator Charles E. Schumer [...]
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