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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: John Koligman who wrote (7547)7/14/2009 7:25:01 PM
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So, the reality is the "run rate" for the second five years is 1.7 Trillion for ten years. And it will escalate after that.

I cannot believe these people are going to try to pass this POS.

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"This is the ‘fierce urgency’ of chutzpah," said Don Stewart, an aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. He writes that "the average cost of the second five years is about $171 billion annually. Or, put another way, 85 percent of the costs are in the second five years of the bill (2015-2019). So…they’ve backloaded the costs and the consequences until after the next presidential election. They’ve also lowered their per-year cost by not implementing the bill until four years into their budget window."

House Republican leadership aides call this "scored" with an asterisk: "Actually, CBO didn’t score the bill," Michael Steel, an aide to House Minority Leader John Boehner, wrote in an e-mail. "In the second paragraph of CBO’s letter, it says, 'It is important to note, however, that those estimates are based on specifications provided by the tri-committee group rather than an analysis of the language released today.' So they scored what Democrats asked them to score. Not the actual bill."

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