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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Since we’ve been in big economic stimulus bills and such up to our necks, I haven’t had time to call out the really fun legislation that gets introduced all the time in Congress.
One of my favorites are the bills that make dramatic claims about what they can achieve. And health care is one where [...]
Cost estimates for bills on the floor this week have been published and incorporated into our database.
H.R. 384, the TARP Reform and Accountability Act of 2009, saves the average U.S. family a little over $80. (Which is nice until you realize that the legislation creating the Troubled Assets Relief Program cost almost $3,000.)
It was debated [...]
More than 350 bills were introduced in Congress on its first day yesterday. At that rate, we’ll easily rocket past 10,000 bills, and past the last Congress’ record of over 11,000 bills. (And of course that rate won’t actually continue.)
We’ll be adding the new bills to the database throughout the day, but what [...]
I take a quick glance at all the bills that are introduced in Congress to make sure you’re getting the very, very best information from WashingtonWatch.com. (And maybe I’ve got a touch of OCD.) As I do, I often stumble across bills that stand out just for something in their titles. The bed [...]