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House health care bill over $1 trillion for decade

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The Associated Press: House health care bill over $1 trillion for decade

WASHINGTON — Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month.

Democrats have touted an unreleased Congressional Budget Office estimate of $871 billion in recent days, a total that numerous officials acknowledge understates the bill's true cost by $150 billion or more. That figure excludes several items designed to improve benefits for Medicare and Medicaid recipients and providers, as well as public health programs and more, they added.

The officials who disclosed the details did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss them publicly.
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It's not really worth speculating about the likelihood of any of the individual proposals now, because the final bill will be much different, but it's still nice to be reminded that there's only so many accounting tricks that you can get away with.
 
Barack Obama is a socialist mother****er.
 
There is absolutely no way in Hades the government can provide health care to the masses and it NOT an enormous amount of money.
 
RightinNYC said:
The Associated Press: House health care bill over $1 trillion for decade



It's not really worth speculating about the likelihood of any of the individual proposals now, because the final bill will be much different, but it's still nice to be reminded that there's only so many accounting tricks that you can get away with.
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It's not worth speculating because the number will be 100% Bull****.

Show me a government program that has come anywhere near the forecasts, and considered how it would be fundamentally corrupted.

Of course, we can count on the honesty and integrity of Democrats to give us the dope straight on this... LOL...

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That's a frightening amount of money.
 
Eh, the Bush financial system bailout was what, $700 billion? Obama's economic package $800 billion? If we can spend $1 trillion over 10 years for a decent healthcare system it sounds like a good deal to me.
 
vvx said:
Eh, the Bush financial system bailout was what, $700 billion? Obama's economic package $800 billion? If we can spend $1 trillion over 10 years for a decent healthcare system it sounds like a good deal to me.
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Really? :shock:
 
American said:
Really? :shock:
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Just saying, had we not done most of the pointless bailouts we'd have already paid for the first 10 years of real healthcare.
 
vvx said:
Just saying, had we not done most of the pointless bailouts we'd have already paid for the first 10 years of real healthcare.
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We don't need this idiot healthcare program. We could save even more.
 
vvx said:
If we can spend $1 trillion over 10 years for a decent healthcare system it sounds like a good deal to me
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the vast majority of elected dems, including the prez, disagree with you
 
Over ten years?...who knows what will happen over that period of time...think back to what has happened over the past ten years.

Anyway...

Kinda pales in comparison to this yearly budget:

$533.7 billion for the Department of Defense base budget in 2010, a four-percent increase over 2009
 
The Prof said:
the vast majority of elected dems, including the prez, disagree with you
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Probably one reason I didn't vote for the president.
 
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