Comments on: How Much Do The Health Bills Cost?

By: Talking About the Revised Baucus Health Bill

Talking About the Revised Baucus Health Bill — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:37:38 +0000

[...] First, as I discussed yesterday, CBO’s estimates indicate that the bill would cost a bit more than $900 billion over the next ten years, not the $829 billion that most commentators are using. The latter figure reflects the costs of expanding coverage, but does not include other efforts — e.g., paying more to physicians under Medicare and expanding the Medicare drug benefit — that are also included in the bill. The $75 billion difference strikes me as important in itself, but the larger issue may well be how much additional spending is in the House bill. The previous version of the House bill was often described as costing about $1 trillion over ten years, but if you include all the new spending in it, the actual figure was north of $1.5 trillion. [...]

By: The Real Cost of the New Baucus Health Bill

The Real Cost of the New Baucus Health Bill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:25:19 +0000

[...] is that an important distinction? Because, as I noted the other day, the bill increases federal health spending in other ways. For example, it spends [...]

By: The Real Cost of the Baucus Bill « Donald Marron

The Real Cost of the Baucus Bill « Donald Marron — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:45:04 +0000

[...] is that an important distinction? Because, as I noted the other day, the bill increases federal health spending in other ways. For example, it spends about $11 billion [...]