Impact on Individual Market Premiums for a Family in 2016 Under Various Democrat Proposals According to CBO Proposal   Change in Premiums Compared to Current Law Projections   Senate Democrats’ Bill (H.R. 3590)* … Read more

The White House has made numerous claims about its latest health care proposal, which islargely based on the Senate Democrats’ health care bill. Those assertions, however, are contradicted by the analysis of that legislation by thenon-partisan and independent Congressional Budget Office, Joint Committee onTaxation and the Office of the Actuary at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid… Read more

According to today’s New York Times, “The president’s bill would grant the federal Health and Human Services Secretary new authority to review, and to block, premium increases by private insurers, potentially superseding state insurance regulators.”  While the President claims the proposal is in reaction to recent, unacceptable insurance premium hikes, premiums would grow more costly for… Read more

With today's release of the President’s health care outline, it is clear Democrats continue to ignore the concerns raised by the American people – primarily that Democrat proposals will drive up the costs of health insurance, slash Medicare benefits for millions of seniors, and increase job-killing taxes when unemployment is hovering around 10 percent. Below is a quick comparison of… Read more

Today’s New York Times details a fatal flaw in the Democrats’ health bills: “Facing relentless fiscal pressure and exploding demand for government health care, virtually every state is making or considering substantial cuts in Medicaid, even as Congressional Democrats push to add 15 million people to the rolls.”  Keep in mind, Congressional Democrats get nearly half of their reduction in… Read more

GOVERNMENT WARNING: Democrats’ Health Bills Dangerous to Your Financial Health Taxpayers and Privately Insured Both to Pay More   A new report by the Obama Administration’s own actuaries in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), published in Health Affairs, details two troubling and unsustainable trends in health care spending: National Health Expenditures… Read more

  January 27, 2010     Floor of the United States House of Representatives     Secret Meeting Room Elsewhere in the Capitol   … Read more

President Obama, in an interview with Diane Sawyer, attempted to clarify his role in the health care legislative debate but rewrote history in doing so. Regardless of his assertions, the reality is President Obama was Chief Dealmaker, making sweetheart deals behind closed doors with the most powerful health care lobbyists in Washington.* Here are Three of the Major Backroom Deals… Read more

Data from the non-partisan analysts at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that by 2019 more than 1 in 5 workers would be affected by an unprecedented new tax on health benefits included in the Senate-passed Democrat health bill.  And that figure (1 in 5 workers being affected) will grow quickly over time.   Numerous media reports indicate that during their… Read more

Yesterday, leaders of the nation’s largest unions pointedly told the President that his plan to tax health care benefits for the first time was a bad idea. This morning, in a column printed by the Washington Post, Fortune magazine’s senior editor at large Allan Sloan, noted that upon closer inspection “you come away far less impressed” with the tax.  Why?  Primarily, because “the… Read more