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Thu Oct-29-09 03:34 PM
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| BREAKING: CBO Releases Numbers On House Health Care Bill : Reduce Deficit by $104 Billion |
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Edited on Thu Oct-29-09 03:42 PM by ind_thinker2
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/cbo-releases-numbers-on-house-health-care-bill.php?ref=fpaThe Congressional Budget Office has just released its score of the House health care reform bill, which was unveiled this morning. The bill will reduce the deficit by $104 billion over the first 10 years, according to the CBO. It will also cost $894 billion. (President Obama has said he won't sign a bill that costs more than $900 billion.) CBO report http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/106xx/doc10688/hr3962Rangel.pdf
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| Thrill
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Thu Oct-29-09 03:38 PM
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| 1. That means the strong option would have saved 130 Billion? |
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Thu Oct-29-09 03:45 PM
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Thu Oct-29-09 03:49 PM
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| 5. Imagine what HR676 would have saved |
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except it would have cut heavily into campaign funds.
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| Scarsdale Vibe
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Thu Oct-29-09 03:54 PM
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| 8. CBO seems to have been scoring HR 676 since September it seems. |
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Hopefully they'll get around to it now that the Senate and House bills are both closer to final versions.
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Thu Oct-29-09 03:45 PM
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| 2. Sounds good to me, now how much will Liebercrap going to fuck it up in the Senate. nt |
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Thu Oct-29-09 03:46 PM
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| 4. Has anybody even asked him why he keeps citing the cost |
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and impact on the deficit for his reason to filibuster, but every study indicates a strong public option reduces the deficit?
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Thu Oct-29-09 03:50 PM
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| 6. he keeps avoiding the likes of Rachel Maddow |
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or anybody who will question him on the facts, opting instead to go on Fox news to parrot health care opponents talking points
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Thu Oct-29-09 04:13 PM
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| 11. When Ned Lamont challenged him a few years back |
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The local left-of-center radio host here in CT, Colin McEnroe, was interviewing Lieberman on the air and had asked him about Lamont (who had just announced and was polling way behind Lieberman at the time...) Lieberman did the typical dismissal of a new guy on the block, but McEnroe said that he'll have to check Lamont out to see what he's about, and Lieberman had a hissy fit on the air and was downright indignant. McEnroe didn't say he was going to vote for Lamont (though, I'm sure he ended up voting Lamont), just that he was going to check him out because he was the new guy on the scene. Lieberman has not been on with McEnroe since, as far as I know.
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Thu Oct-29-09 04:17 PM
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| 14. The Nutmeg State needs to get rid of this liar Jeff |
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but first the democratic party needs to dump him and take his valued Homeland Security Chair gavel away.
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Thu Oct-29-09 04:26 PM
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he was all for the public option - even stating in his debates with Lamont that all Americans should be able to buy into a government program...
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Thu Oct-29-09 04:43 PM
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| 17. Ah, I miss Colin. Where did he go? There is just a conservative idiot on at his time slot now. |
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Joe essentially lied to all the voters of CT over the years on pretty much everything. I voted for Lamont in 2006.
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Thu Oct-29-09 05:43 PM
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| 19. Colin recently started a daily show on NPR |
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I think it's either noon-1 or 1-2 on Connecticut Public Radio.
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Thu Oct-29-09 08:03 PM
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| 20. Thanks! Good to hear, I always liked him. |
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Thu Oct-29-09 03:52 PM
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| 7. Does that include "fixing" medicare rates? |
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I hope so!!! This should be a slam dunk.
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Thu Oct-29-09 03:57 PM
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| 9. Where we are going to get kneecapped is the senate.. Watch out for Jumping Joe |
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Thu Oct-29-09 03:59 PM
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Thu Oct-29-09 04:15 PM
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| 12. And can we also chop 500 billion out of Medicare benefits? Perfect! |
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Edited on Thu Oct-29-09 04:16 PM by Better Believe It
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Thu Oct-29-09 04:34 PM
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| 16. Medicare -- or "Medicare Advantage" -- |
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Because Medicare Advantage is a scam that needs to be cut.
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Thu Oct-29-09 05:03 PM
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| 18. All of Medicare Advantage (which is a scam) and hundreds of billions out of Medicare benefits. |
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Is that what we really want to see happen to standard Medicare benefits in order to cut spending on the elderly and disabled?
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Fri Oct-30-09 04:08 PM
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| 30. Could you give me your reference in the bill for that? I've downloaded it to read through. |
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I'd like to review the sections that reference Medicare cuts.
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Thu Oct-29-09 04:16 PM
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| 13. Did they finish scoring HB676? |
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Edited on Thu Oct-29-09 04:16 PM by Hawkeye-X
That's Rep Weiner's amendment to make it SPC
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Thu Oct-29-09 08:13 PM
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| 21. Wow with that $104Billion savings, will my taxes go down some? |
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If yes, I am thrilled. I can use every dollar.
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Thu Oct-29-09 09:02 PM
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| 22. 12 million americans left uninsured. n/t |
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Thu Oct-29-09 09:10 PM
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| 23. What is that, like 4%? |
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Do you know why and how these folks would be left uninsured?
Can you explain it those of us who don't know? Thanks! :hi:
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Thu Oct-29-09 09:10 PM
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| 24. What is that, like 4%? |
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Do you know why and how these folks would be left uninsured?
Can you explain it those of us who don't know? Thanks! :hi:
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Thu Oct-29-09 09:17 PM
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| 25. Read the CBO estimate yourself. |
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What does it matter whether 12 million americans are 1%, 4% or 20%. It's still 12 million people uninsured.
And with no cost controls that number will increase every year.
Much like the useless wars we are fighting, unless the coffins of the dead 44,000 uninsured are lined up and photographed for all to see, they are just statistics, numbers and percentages.
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Thu Oct-29-09 09:20 PM
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| 26. It does matter if it is 4% as opposed to 16%........ |
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And you didn't answer my question as to why there will be 4% still uninsured. :shrug:
Would you venture a guess, even if you don't link any cites? Thanks!
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Thu Oct-29-09 09:37 PM
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| 27. The cbo estimate. The one linked in this thread. |
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Problem doing your homework?
12 million americans is 12 million too many. You care to volunteer to be one.
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Thu Oct-29-09 10:11 PM
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| 28. So in otherwords, you don't know why the 12 million will not be insusured, right? |
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I read the CBO report, and they only state that 18 million (of which 1/3 are illegal immigrants) would remain uninsured.
I want to know why and how, and you don't seem to know. My understanding is that this is how many will still not purchase health insurance, regardless of the subsidies available to assist them in doing so.
Do you have a different explaination, and if so, what is it? :shrug:
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Fri Oct-30-09 11:01 PM
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| 32. The report doesn't specify, but I'm sure a lot of it is people who |
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choose to pay the penalty rather than pay for insurance. Most of those you're worried would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid:
"Starting in 2013, nonelderly people with income below 150 percent of the FPL would generally be made eligible for Medicaid; the federal government would pay a share of the costs of covering newly eligible enrollees that averaged about 91 percent. (Under current rules, the federal government usually pays about 57 percent, on average, of the costs of Medicaid benefits.)"
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Fri Oct-30-09 09:28 AM
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| 29. But but but fox "news" and Joe "Lie"berman say it'll increase the deficit!!1! |
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And fox "news" and "Liar Joe" would know better than the CBO!!1!
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Fri Oct-30-09 10:47 PM
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| 31. K & R - This Just Exposes Blue Dog Opposition |
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