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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (12183)	12/9/2009 2:22:14 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Then you have nothing to go on. The CBO report counts budget cuts when the congress says "we will cut X" (even though its unlikely the cuts will happen), but that's not the CBO reporting anything, its just the congress passing back congress claims. Moving away from explicit budget cuts to actual health care and insurance cuts the CBO's position is "the CBO expects premiums for those who receive insurance through their employers to stay roughly flat, the CBO also expects premiums in the individual market—the market that this bill was primarily intended to reform—to jump significantly. Any premium reductions in that market would come through taxpayer-funded subsidies, not through reform's magical shrinking effect on premiums." and that overall it can't evaluate the long term changes in costs