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• CBO Projection Underestimated Unemployment Rates

  
  Logistics Monster — Authority: 528
  In the back of my mind, I have been hoping that maybe I am wrong, that I have a pessimistic view of the world, and things are actually going to get better sooner than later. It sucks being right… Elmendorf Sees Even Bleaker Jobless Outlook CBO Director Elmendorf said today the country has not yet seen the ...
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• Climate Change Legislation Would Slow Economy, Says Congressional Budget Office

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 579
  Climate Change Legislation Would Slow Economy, Says Congressional Budget Office Wednesday, November 25, 2009 CNS By Chris Neefus The U.S. Capitol Power Plant heats and cools the halls of Congress. In April 2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would “lead by ...
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• What Obama Is Reading (And, Maybe, Thinking)

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 140
  Both in and beyond Washington, people tend to be skeptical when the promoters of health care reform promise that it will reward efficiency and reduce the cost of care. In a piece that the president himself is said to have circulated in the West Wing, the Atlantic s Ron Brownstein explains why that reaction is ...
  3 days ago

• Krugman on the Debt and Deficits

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 675
  Paul Krugman has taken some rather interesting stances on the fiscal situation here in the U.S. First up is a piece entitled Fiscal Train Wreck from March 2003, With war looming, it’s time to be prepared. So last week I switched to a fixed-rate mortgage. It means higher monthly payments, but I’m terrified ...
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• We Can’t Just Ignore It: Democrat Bill WILL Ration Your Health Care

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 477
  Mammograms – or the lack of them – are all the buzz right now. They are serving as warning shots of the massive health care rationing to come if the Democrat health plan becomes law. The former head of the National Institute of Health says that women should very forcefully ignore the recommendations of the Obama ...
  4 days ago

• Gold Continues to Soar

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 616
  On Friday morning, it was a risk off day… But as the day wore on, risk came back into the currencies…. And today, it’s REALLY a risk on day! Apparently, at some time on Friday, someone with a lick of brains realized that the Fed is going to keep their stimulus measures – which include near zero interest rates ...
  4 days ago

• Really Bad Trade Off Ideas for the Public Option

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 765
  Nate Silver believes progressives should trade the public option away , but what he wants in return is far more useless and an even tougher political battle. And the public option, as currently constructed, would only enroll 3-4 million people, according to the CBO. It’s a relatively minor provision, and one ...
  5 days ago

• Free Health Care Clinic in Arkansas

  
  WOK3 — Authority: 486
  Who needs the reforms being proposed by the Democrats, we can always wait around and hope for one of these clinics to come by when we need it.  You know, providing whoever needs help lives long enough to get this sort of help. Are we still the richest country in the world, because you sure wouldn’t think so to ...
  5 days ago

• TOP 10 (+1) PROBLEMS WITH HARRY REID’S HEALTHCARE TAKEOVER

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  After weeks of keeping his bill hidden from the public, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) finally unveiled his proposal for a complete overhaul of the American healthcare system. Revealing his lack of commitment to transparency, Reid refused requests by his fellow Senators and the American people to see the ...
  6 days ago

• Garbage-in-Garbage Out: CBO Scores Reid Bill

  
  Liberty Works — Authority: 472
  On November 18 Senate Majority Leader Reid received preliminary estimates (also called “score) from the Congressional Budget Office for his 2,000 page package of new Health Care bureaucracies, taxes, subsidies, and mandates.  It began with an estimated… …net reduction in federal deficits of $130 billion ...
  6 days ago

• Health Care Bills: A Year Makes a Big Difference

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 646
  The coverage provisions in the Senate health bill have a much lower ten-year cost that do the coverage provisions in the House bill. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the coverage provisions in the Senate bill will cost $848 billion from 2010 through 2019, while the corresponding...
  1 week ago

• For Health Bills, A Year Makes a Big Difference

  
  Donald Marron — Authority: 573
  The coverage provisions in the Senate health bill have a much lower ten-year cost that do the coverage provisions in the House bill. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the coverage provisions in the Senate bill will cost $848 billion from 2010 through 2019, while the corresponding costs for the House ...
  1 week ago

• Mainstream Media Touts $848 Billion Senate Health Bill, Ignores Actual Cost Of At LEAST $2.5 Trillion

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 477
  Democrats have done a good job – along with the loyal participation of a leftwing propaganda machine – of projecting their takeover of the health care system as “only” costing a “mere” $848 billion. They think the American people are dumb enough to buy their fraud, and maybe they are. But the actual cost ...
  1 week ago

• A Welfare Program Masquerading as Health Reform

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 529
  What do you call it when some people pay just 4 percent of their income for health insurance while others pay 20 percent and virtually everyone but the lowest quintile of wage earners will end up paying more than they do now? You call it a welfare program masquerading as health care reform. In a November 2, 2009 ...
  1 week ago

• Senate cloture vote, November 20, 2009, Harry Reid, ObamaCare, Government health care bill, 60 votes, Medicare cuts, Deficit increase, Republican filibuster, CBO cost estimates

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  From an AmeriPac email, November 20, 2009.  “Senate ObamaCare Cloture Vote On Saturday! Kill the BILL Today – Stop ObamaCare In The Senate! Alert: We Have the Chance to Kill Socialized Medicine TODAY - Reid and Senate Democrats announced they will file cloture today on the motion to proceed regarding ...
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• Harry Reid and What Happened to the Public Option

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 144
  Im still not giving up. I want every Senator whos not in the pocket of the private insurers or Big Pharma to introduce and vote for a "Ted Kennedy Medicare for All" amendment to whatever bill Reid... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Truly a turkey: Reform bill stuffed with costs

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Just in time for Thanksgiv ing, Sen. Harry Reid has given us a giant turkey of a health-care bill. At 2,074 pages and more than 370,000 words, its officially "scored" as costing $849 billion over 10 years -- $400 million per page, or $2.3 million per word. But that doesnt come close to measuring its true cost. The ...
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• What’s the Real Cost of the Senate Health Bill?

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 646
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled his health bill yesterday. As everyone knows by now, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the bill would spend $848 billion to expand coverage over the next ten years, reducing the number of uninsured in 2019 by about 31 million. (The House...
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• How Much Does the Senate Health Bill Cost?

  
  Donald Marron — Authority: 573
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled his health bill yesterday. As everyone knows by now, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)  estimates that the bill would spend $848 billion to expand coverage over the next ten years, reducing the number of uninsured in 2019 by about 31 million. (The House bill would spend ...
  1 week ago

• About that latest CBO report on ObamaCare

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 574
  On news of the score from the CBO on the Senate version of ObamaCare I wrote : As I’ve noted in posts on previous scores, the CBO always adds that each score is “subject to substantial uncertainty” because these estimates are almost always inaccurate . This morning, thanks to Jamie Dupree , I got a ...
  1 week ago

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