A cost estimate for the health care bill under debate in the Senate comes to just shy of $8,000 per U.S. family. It’s an incomplete cost estimate according to the Congressional Budget Office, which produced it.
Health care reform legislation will be debated in the House this coming week, and the issue is all teed up.
H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, was introduced last week—all 1,990 pages of it.
You can see it by clicking “Read the bill” in the “Learn more” box on the bill’s page.
The Los [...]
A few late-arriving cost estimates have come through for bills on the House floor this week. This may not make or break your wallet, but it’s good to know.
H.R. 2265, the Magna Water District Water Reuse and Groundwater Recharge Act of 2009, costs $0.11 per U.S. family.
H.R. 2522, which raises the ceiling on the Federal [...]
The House Transpartation/Housing and Urban Development spending bill, which is being debated on the House floor right now, would spend about $1,300 per U.S. family.
“Instead of saving the federal government from fiscal catastrophe, the health reform measures being drafted by congressional Democrats would increase rather than reduce public spending on health care . . . .”
That’s the lead sentence in a Washington Post article about testimony in Congress from the Congressional Budget Office today. The CBO is the source [...]
Too late for reporting to you in the weekly email or our follow-up post, a few more of the bills the House is dealing with this week have gotten cost estimates.
H.R. 2200, the Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act costs $103.80 per U.S. family.
H.R. 2352, the Job Creation Through Entrepreneurship Act of 2009 costs $4.89 per [...]
The Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act, scheduled for the House floor this week, would cost the average U.S. family about $4.00.
Just in time to be too late for this week’s email newsletter, the Congressional Budget Office has come out with cost estimates for two of the bills being debated this week.
H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 comes in at about nine cents per U.S. family.
And H.R. 627, the Credit [...]
We’re big on making the numbers real around here – such as by giving you the cost per family and per person of the bills moving through Congress.
Well here’s a video that illustrates some very interesting things about President Obama’s pledge to cut $100 million dollars from the federal budget.
But there’s a problem with this [...]
Until today, it had been over a week since the Congressional Budget Office published a new cost estimate. This is the source of most of the cost estimates here. Y’know, the cost estimates you have grown to know and love. We take their estimates and plug it into our database, which calculates the per-family, net [...]