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.
Like the House did the other week, the Senate is having a special Saturday session devoted to health care. It’s a great chance to see your representatives at work.
Take a look at them, streamed on C-SPAN.
The base bill is H.R. 3590. It was introduced in the House as the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act [...]
A new cost estimate for the health care bill that the House passed Saturday puts it at about $15,000 per U.S. family. That’s a lot of scratch! An earlier estimate came in at only half that much.
But it’s important not to over-read the estimate. Instead, familiarize yourself with our methodology for scoring bills. We count [...]
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 [...]
The Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill has finally been introducted. It is S. 1796.
At this writing, the bill text is not available, but reports have it that it is 1,502 pages long. To read it, go to the bill page, and click on “Read the Bill” in the “Learn More” box. (Again, if it’s [...]
Site visitor Blaine Whittle writes in to note that his petition on Change.org is “#5 with a bullet this week.” Congratulations, Blaine!
The petition supports H.R. 676, the United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. According to its authors, it would provide comprehensive health insurance coverage for all [...]
A little over $12,000 per U.S. family. That’s the estimated cost of a piece of health care legislation called H.R. 3200, the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. I don’t know if “affordable” should really be in the title . . . .
It’s a preliminary estimate, and the bill is very complex, but [...]
“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 [...]
S. 1252 would “promote ocean and human health.”
Let’s say you’ve been injured by a doctor. Who do you want deciding what happens? Do you want to be able to go to court, or do you want your claim considered by a “health care tribunal”?
The people in the picture to the right are not a health care tribunal. They’re a random group that [...]