GOP Offers Estimate for House Bill
By Lori Montgomery
In House hearings this morning, Republicans claimed to have an independent estimate showing that the House health reform measure unveiled last week would cost more than $3.5 trillion over the next decade and cause 64 million people to lose their current, private insurance and buy into a government-run public plan.
The House bill has yet to receive an official cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. House leaders have estimated the cost of the still incomplete measure at around $1 trillion and asserted that it would provide coverage to 95 percent of Americans.
You can decide for yourself about the GOP claims. Their analysis, by HSI Network, is posted here: here and here.
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Paul Volpe
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June 24, 2009; 11:19 AM ET
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Posted by: forrestbrown | June 24, 2009 11:37 AM | Report abuse
The corner stone of competent healthcare is good diagnostics. To help pay for this plan Obama has recommended a 95% utilization rate for Medicare reimbursement of Diagnostic Imaging. This would make it all but impossible for outpatient Diagnostic Imaging centers to remain open, and result in thousands of lost jobs. It would force hospitals to try to pick up the slack. This is one of the major ways that healthcare will be rationed and the quality of healthcare seriously downgraded.
Posted by: openwide | June 27, 2009 2:50 PM | Report abuse
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