Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 20)
14 August 
20 Comments
How many uninsured need additional help? Conclusion.
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Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 19)
14 August 2 Comments
Budgetary offsets and a tax increase proposal rejected months ago by Congress
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Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 18)
13 August 3 Comments
The President understates the annual cost of new health care spending by a factor of two.
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Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 17)
13 August 8 Comments
The President criticizes the U.S. Postal Service and undermines the case for more government involvement in health care.
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Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 14)
13 August 1 Comment
So much for the pharmaceutical industry’s deal with the White House…
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Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 10)
13 August 2 Comments
Even if the public option drops out of legislation, other parts of these bills would put private insurance under government control.
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Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 9)
13 August 4 Comments
Medicare is fiscally unsustainable.
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CBO calls a TKO on the House health bill
28 July 30 Comments
Because the proposed new health spending would grow faster than the proposed new income tax increases, the House health bill would increase the long-term deficit. Since the President has said he would not sign a bill that increases the long-term deficit, the bill is dead in its current form. Any tax increase that would grow more slowly than the proposed new spending faces the same irreconcilable problem. The only way to solve this problem and meet the President’s long-term goal is to cut other health spending or tax employer-provided health insurance.
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