Elliot Stabler wrote: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) health care reform proposal will cost $849 billion over 10 years but cut the deficit by about $127 billion, Roll Call reports.

The CBO cost estimate also concluded that the health care reform bill would help more than 94 percent of Americans get health insurance coverage and reduce the rolls of the uninsured by 31 million people.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/11/18/reids_bill_scored_well.html


I sure am happy to see this. I would also like to know what took so long

fish82 wrote:

The libs have spent 6 months deciding if their balls are big enough to own this shitpile 100%. That's what took so long.

Elliot Stabler wrote: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) health care reform proposal will cost $849 billion over 10 years but cut the deficit by about $127 billion, Roll Call reports.

The CBO cost estimate also concluded that the health care reform bill would help more than 94 percent of Americans get health insurance coverage and reduce the rolls of the uninsured by 31 million people.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/11/18/reids_bill_scored_well.html


I sure am happy to see this. I would also like to know what took so long

In fact, every federal social program has cost far more than originally predicted. For instance, in 1967 the House Ways and Means Committee predicted that Medicare would cost $12 billion in 1990, a staggering $95 billion underestimate. Medicare first exceeded $12 billion in 1975. In 1965 federal actuaries figured the Medicare hospital program would end up running $9 billion in 1990. The cost was more than $66 billion.

In 1987 Congress estimated that the Medicaid Special Hospitals Subsidy would hit $100 million in 1992. The actual bill came to $11 billion. The initial costs of Medicare's kidney-dialysis program, passed in 1972, were more than twice projected levels.

The Congressional Budget Office doubled the estimated cost of Medicare's catastrophic insurance benefit—subsequently repealed—from $5.7 billion to $11.8 billion annually within the first year of its passage. The agency increased the projected cost of the skilled nursing benefit an astonishing sevenfold over roughly the same time frame, from $2.1 billion to $13.5 billion. And in 1935 a naive Congress predicted $3.5 billion in Social Security outlays in 1980, one-thirtieth the actual level of $105 billion

Dog99 wrote:

fish82 wrote:

The libs have spent 6 months deciding if their balls are big enough to own this shitpile 100%. That's what took so long.

Cutting the deficit is bad now?

Your post is outstanding and bears repeating, I hope you don't mind!

In fact, every federal social program has cost far more than originally predicted. For instance, in 1967 the House Ways and Means Committee predicted that Medicare would cost $12 billion in 1990, a staggering $95 billion underestimate. Medicare first exceeded $12 billion in 1975. In 1965 federal actuaries figured the Medicare hospital program would end up running $9 billion in 1990. The cost was more than $66 billion.

In 1987 Congress estimated that the Medicaid Special Hospitals Subsidy would hit $100 million in 1992. The actual bill came to $11 billion. The initial costs of Medicare's kidney-dialysis program, passed in 1972, were more than twice projected levels.

The Congressional Budget Office doubled the estimated cost of Medicare's catastrophic insurance benefit—subsequently repealed—from $5.7 billion to $11.8 billion annually within the first year of its passage. The agency increased the projected cost of the skilled nursing benefit an astonishing sevenfold over roughly the same time frame, from $2.1 billion to $13.5 billion. And in 1935 a naive Congress predicted $3.5 billion in Social Security outlays in 1980, one-thirtieth the actual level of $105 billion

Dog99 wrote:

fish82 wrote:

The libs have spent 6 months deciding if their balls are big enough to own this shitpile 100%. That's what took so long.

Cutting the deficit is bad now?

fish82 wrote:

Elliot Stabler wrote: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) health care reform proposal will cost $849 billion over 10 years but cut the deficit by about $127 billion, Roll Call reports.

The CBO cost estimate also concluded that the health care reform bill would help more than 94 percent of Americans get health insurance coverage and reduce the rolls of the uninsured by 31 million people.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/11/18/reids_bill_scored_well.html


I sure am happy to see this. I would also like to know what took so long

The libs have spent 6 months deciding if their balls are big enough to own this shitpile 100%. That's what took so long.

tk421 wrote: If somehow Reid and Pelosi were to lose their seats, I'd throw a party. That would be a great day.

Cleveland Buck wrote: From what I heard they are counting on us having like 5% or 6% economic growth per year to project how much revenue these new taxes will bring in, which is ridiculous. It's been many years since we had that kind of growth, and this president and Congress will never see anything close to it.

tk421 wrote: If somehow Reid and Pelosi were to lose their seats, I'd throw a party. That would be a great day.