From the Blog: New Cost Estimate for the Health Care Bill

The House of Representatives passed health care legislation in a rare Saturday session this past weekend. A new cost estimate for the bill came out, too. It placed the cost of the bill at $15,000 per U.S. family. Read about it in a blog post entitled: “New Cost Estimate for the Health Care Bill“

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Late last week, the House passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. The bill would make substantial changes to the way health insurance and health care are paid for and provided in the United States.

Passage of H.R. 3962 would cost the average U.S. family over $15,000, according to a new cost estimate. The bill now goes to the Senate, where its prospects are uncertain.

Last week, the House and Senate both passed identical versions of H.R. 3548, the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009. This cleared it for the president’s signature.

The bill would grant 14 weeks of additional unemployment benefits in all states and 20 weeks in states where the unemployment rate is above 8.5%.

Passage of H.R. 3548 would cost the average U.S. family a little over $24. There have been over 55,000 comments on the bill on the WashingtonWatch.com page for the bill.

H.R. 3962
The Affordable Health Care for America Act
Costs $15,256.35 per family

H.R. 3548
The Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009
Costs $24.40 per family

What People Think

The Affordable Health Care for America Act 14% For, 86% Against Vote on this Bill

The Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009 81% For, 19% Against Vote on this Bill

Displayed below are new, updated, and passed items with their cost or savings per family.

New Items

H.R. 3962
The Affordable Health Care for America Act
Costs $15,256.35 per family

P.L. 111-67
The Defense Production Act Reauthorization of 2009
Costs $6.90 per family

H.R. 3961
The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
Costs $2,830.95 per family

H.R. 3795
The Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets Act of 2009
Costs $7.84 per family

H.R. 1506
To provide that claims of the United States to certain documents relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt shall be treated as waived and relinquished in certain circumstances
Costs $0.00 per family

S. 1178
The Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2009
Costs $0.48 per family

H.R. 3791
The Fire Grants Reauthorization Act of 2009
Costs $52.64 per family

H.R. 42
The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act
Costs $0.00 per family

H.R. 1849
The World War I Memorial and Centennial Act of 2009
Costs $0.02 per family

H.R. 2190
The Mercury Pollution Reduction Act
Costs $0.00 per family

H.R. 3237
To enact certain laws relating to National and Commercial Space Programs as title 51, United States Code, “National and Commercial Space Programs”
Costs $0.00 per family

S. 1735
The Lumbee Recognition Act
Costs $7.21 per family

H.R. 3949
The Veterans’ Small Business Assistance and Servicemembers Protection Act of 2009
Costs $0.72 per family

Updated Items

H.R. 3962
The Affordable Health Care for America Act
Costs $15,256.35 per family

Passed Items

P.L. 111-88
The Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010
Costs $323.00 per family

P.L. 111-89
A bill to provide for additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, and for other purposes

P.L. 111-90
The Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Amendments Act of 2009