Pelosicare Skyrockets to $1.2 Trillion
WASHINGTON -- 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.
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Walter the Moose
$1.2 trillion? I'll bet my check against anyones that they are not even close to $1.2 trillion at the 8 year mark - no matter how they count our money. Way, way over. I'll call it $1.8 trillion, even money.
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FAILURE-IN-CHIEF
Hillary's healthcare plan to include smelling salts for Obama's supporters and mandatory amputation of Chris Matthews' leg.
FAILURE-IN-CHIEF
Pelosi: we won.
Philies: so did we
jimc14
Our President just did away with a law requiring people with HIV/AIDS from getting visas to live in the USA. What will keep the millions of people with this desease coming here to use our NEW health care? 12 trillion dollars is just a drop in the bucket.
Jim in JAX
He'll do anything that hurts America. Period.
openeyedAmerican
The price tag goes up with every page the congress reads .Where will it be when they read the next 1,998 pages of this 2,000 page bill?
Keith_S
Keep up the pressure and contact your reps. Let them know how you feel about this piece of trash...and about the bill.....
Major_Skidmark
We can't afford 1.2 billion, much less 1.2 trillion! These people are INSANE!
moesite
theyre also liars, spineless sob's, and traitors !
Ken123
Pelosi needs to be put in a jar with the lid screwed ON for the good of our nation.
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We're not voting Democrat or Republican we're voting Pocket Book! Both parties have been stealing the American public BLIND for years! Enough!
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COUGH, COUGH: House health bill totals $1.2 trillion...
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1 Million Seconds = 11.57days !
1 Billion Seconds = 31 years !
1 Trillion seconds = 31,688 years !
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People should know just exactly what these number mean in real values and ratios !
When they say it will only cost a Trillion $ ............
You must realize that if someone wanted to count to 1 Trillion, it would only take them 31,688 years to do it, provided they never stopped counting until they got to 1 Trillion. But a person could count to a Million in just 11.57 days if they counted non stop !
Huge difference, astronomical difference.
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And our Government spends our money in these proportions, and refuse to discuss the reasons or the details with us.
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And Acorn is set to receive over 5 Billion in Funds, from we the Tax Payer / Voters !
And For this Reason, Nancy Pelosi should be Impeached for not launching a full scale investigation against Acorn, and anyone connected with there receiving Tax Payer Funds !
That is Pelosi's job and She just ain't gonna do it.
That is grounds for removal.
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1 Million Seconds = 11.57days !
1 Billion Seconds = 31 years !
1 Trillion seconds = 31,688 years !
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People should know just exactly what these numbers mean !!!
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http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Rick " A Illinois Independent "
Is she still riding her broom about this EXTREMELY DYING BILL...
Far Right
Far more expensive than that when you consider that NONE of it will work and nobody that needs it will be helped... It's cost is several trillion
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Joe
Yesterday, an editorial in the Wall Street Journal said this proposed health-care bill is the worst piece of legislation since the new deal. Only 35% of the American people want this to go through. Why have our brain-impaired Congressional leaders ignored the majority of us? Hurry up 2010/2012!!
moesite
Because they dont give a flying F !