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Sweeteners for the South
Dana Milbank
The Washington Post, 11/22/09
Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase. On the eve of Saturday's showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn't secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million in extra federal money for her home state. Read more... A Budget-Buster in the Making
David S. Broder
The Washington Post, 11/22/09
It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll of a national cross section of voters reported its latest results. Read more... The Coming Deficit Disaster
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Manhattan Institute
The Wall Street Journal, 11/21/09
The president says he understands the urgency of our fiscal crisis, but his policies are the equivalent of steering the economy toward an iceberg. Perhaps the most vivid example of sending the wrong message to international capital markets are the health-care reform bills—one that passed the House earlier this month and another under consideration in the Senate. Whatever their good intentions, they have too many flaws to be defensible. Read more... The Goal Is Freedom: The Mandated Health Insurance Outrage
Sheldon Richman
The Freeman, 11/20/09
As Shikha Dalmia points out in Forbes this week, the individual insurance mandate is the major outrage in the whole “health care reform” scam. I would say it’s the keystone. Remove it and most of the rest crumbles to the ground. Who do these politicians think they are? Our lives are not theirs to dispose of. Politicians love to sugarcoat their threats of force. So the Reid bill calls the mandate “shared responsibility.” Read more... Why I Voted No on Health Reform
Rep. Jason Altmire
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/20/09
When Congress set out to accomplish health-care reform earlier this year, I had two main goals in mind: slowing the growth of health-care spending over the long term and building a system that focuses on quality of care, rather than simply quantity of care. Achieving these goals would allow us to greatly reduce the number of Americans without health-insurance coverage and improve the quality and affordability of our health-care system overall.Unfortunately, the health-care reform bill (H.R. 3962) that was passed in the House on Nov. 7 failed to include the reforms necessary to meet these goals. This is why I voted against it. Read more... Can You Trust Those Health Care Cost Numbers?
John Merline
Sphere.com, 11/20/09
The numbers certainly have a pleasing specificity to them. The Senate health care reform bill will cost $848 billion over 10 years and cut the deficit by $130 billion. The House version will cost $1.052 trillion and cut the deficit by $109 billion. But how reliable are these forecasts? Not very, if history is any guide. Time and again, cost projections made by the Congressional Budget Office and other official number-crunching organizations have missed the mark by wide margins, with actual costs blowing past forecasts and adding to deficits. Read more... Who's Afraid to Debate Health Reform?
The Washington Post, 11/20/09
The Senate bill does not do enough to reform how health care is delivered and paid for. It also contains some of the fiscal dangers and fictions of its brethren. For example, it creates a Medicare commission to control costs but severely circumscribes its power; it could not modify "eligibility or benefits," the CBO notes, and would focus on payment rates for "providers other than hospitals, physicians, hospices, and suppliers of durable medical equipment." Read more... Government Health Care Threatens the Right of Conscience
Charles A. Donovan and Robert E. Moffit, The Heritage Foundation
The Washington Examiner, 11/20/09
When President Obama addressed Congress about health care reform, he promised that legislation would guarantee the rights of conscience in health care. He ought to communicate that message to his own administration. Read more... Another Set of Cooked Books
Jeffrey H. Anderson, Pacific Research Institute
New York Post, 11/20/09
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate's latest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same accounting trick as past versions: 99 percent of the costs don't kick in until the fifth year of that "10-year" period. The true 10-year costs are well over twice what Reid's advertising: $1.8 trillion. Read more... The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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