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Jun 17, 2009
The Congressional Budget Office says Sen. Edward Kennedy's oddly-named Affordable Health Choices Act will cost $1 trillion over 10 years (and that's only part of the bill)! Yet only about one-third of the uninsured (16 million people) would get insurance. That equals $62,500 for each newly insured individual – or $250,000 for a family of four. A decade from now, uninsured Americans would number about 36 million – a 20% decrease from what it is today.
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$63K Question: |
Why are we spending so much money |
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Answer: |
Because this is not about insuring the uninsured. It's about nationalizing the health care system. |
7 Responses to “The $63K Question”
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June 17th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Kennedy is aiming for nationalized health care. Otherwise, why would he provide subsidies for families earning up to $110,000 per year? He is trying to create a new entitlement, that you are only bound to spend up to 10% of your income on health care. After that, the taxpayers will pick up the tab.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Devon, agree with your answer. This is all about control and the exercise of power. It’s not about insuring the uninsured.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
This CBO result is truly amazing.
June 17th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Ken, I think that if they want to execute their government take-over of health reform, the Kennedy clique and their ilk will first have to pass a law eliminating the CBO! If the Office keeps rolling out these devastating analyzes, this monstrosity will have trouble getting outside the Beltway bubble.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:55 am
CBO! CBO! CBO! CBO! CBO!………
June 18th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Yesterday, the Senate HELP Committee had to move their health reform markup to a different room – the Senate Caucus Room – which happens to be the same room where Senators held a series of hearings in 1912 examining the sinking of the Titanic. One can only hope the Kennedy bill will suffer the same fate…
June 25th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
[...] plan introduced by Senator Kennedy will probably only insure about 1/3 of the current uninsured and it will cost upwards of one trillion dollars over ten [...]