by Bruce Webb On Sunday the CBO released a letter addressed to Rep. Dave Camp, the Ranking Member on Ways and Means, which among other things measured the impact of HR3200 (the House Tri-Committee Health Care Affordability bill) and a public option on employer covered insurance. On net it turns out that they project more […]
by Bruce Webb Waxman: Blue Dogs must relent on health reform” (UPDATE: the linked article has subsequently been rewritten and expanded. What follows is the version from earlier this morning) House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) says there is “no alternative” to having healthcare legislation bypass his committee if Blue Dog Democrats […]
by Bruce Webb Last week was kind of a busy time for CBO scoring with the result that some stories got over-reported and others not reported at all. So lets back up a little. Tuesday July 14. CBO scores the coverage costs of HR3200, the House Tri-Committee Bill. The CBO Director’s Blog puts this announcement […]
Nationality Act of 1940: Nipping wingnut memes in the bud by Bruce Webb on Dec. 7, 2008. I guess flowering happens.
OR; HR3200 Sec 102 revisited. by Bruce Webb We first visited the health care reform meme sweeping the right wing of the Blogosphere with this post HR3200 abolishes private health insurance. This seemed at first to be a simple confusion of the limits of the following from Sec 102 of the legislation: 1) LIMITATION ON […]
by Bruce Webb Press release from the House Ways and Means Committee dated Saturday July 18th. CBO Scores Confirms Deficit Neutrality of Health Reform Bill Washington, D.C. — The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released estimates this evening confirming for the first time that H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, is deficit neutral over the […]
by Bruce Webb Did you know that the House Tri-Committee Bill HR3200 openly and brazenly outlaws new private individual health insurance plans after Year 1 (now set for 2013)? Well me neither, mainly because it is only not true but in total context absurd. Not quite as absurd as the idea that the Moon landings […]
by Bruce Webb h/t to dKos poster Pronin2. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/104xx/doc10464/hr3200.pdf New scoring released Friday night shows the ten-year net increase to the deficit from the House Tri-Committee bill down to $239 billion with an actual five year surplus of $44 billion. I guess we will have to see whether the AP and the Republicans cling to […]
by Bruce Webb House Education and Labor:: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act all links from the Committee web page. Summary Bill Text (1.7 MB PDF) CBO-Preliminary Analysis: Tri-Committee Health Care Bill Compare to the tables scoring the Senate HELP Bill Kennedy-Dodd Bill with CBO Scoring House Tri-Committee: Ten year addition to budget $1.082 trillion. Total […]
by Bruce Webb The MSM and the blogosphere alike are ablaze with speculation about exactly what secret program the CIA kept concealed for eight years. Assasination squad targetted at al-Qaeda? Well since we have been firing Hellfire missiles from Predators whenever we suspect the presense of high level al-Qaeda for years now that news would […]