AP Sources: House Health Bill Totals $1.2 Trillion

[steven johnson]

Some skeptics have notices inflation in the House's healthcare reform bill which has increased the price tag.

The health care bill headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 trillion or more over a decade, according to numerous Democratic officials and figures contained in an analysis by congressional budget experts, far higher than the $900 billion cited by President Barack Obama as a price tag for his reform plan.

While the Congressional Budget Office has put the cost of expanding coverage in the legislation at roughly $1 trillion, Democrats added billions more on higher spending for public health, a reinsurance program to hold down retiree health costs, payments for preventive services and more.

Many of the additions are designed to improve benefits or ease access to coverage in government programs. The officials who provided overall cost estimates did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss them.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has referred repeatedly to the bill's net cost of $894 billion over a decade for coverage.


AP Sources: House Health Bill Totals $1.2 Trillion

[depakid]

1. In a culture that promotes and nurtures lies- no one knows what to believe

America the exceptional- where dishonesty reigns for a price- and most any rationalization is accepted so long as it reinforces one's ideology.

[FrenchieCat]

2. AP ain't no accountant.....definitely in it to try and kill the bill.....

and it's showing!

Boy, talking about Rightwing Press! Almost unbelievable....
not actually, very unbelievable!

[napi21]

3. This sounds like these anon. Dems are really Pubs!

I believe even the CBO is projecting on the conservative side. If you dramatically reduce the # of people who use the ER as their Drs office, you DRAMATICALLY reduce the costs of that hospital system! I know the CBO is not taking anything like that into consideration.

[tblue]

4. Isn't that what money is for??? If not healthcare, then what? nt

[Puzzler]

5. Isn't the health insurance "industry" already a 1.4 trillion/year industry?

I mean, even if the AP figures (for sake of argument) were true... I still don't understand their point.