Obama administration already issuing Veto threat to Healthcare Repeal...

[fraga]

So the new Republican party who are so fiscally responsible want to repeal the Healthcare Bill...which according to the CBO would raise the deficit...

Veto...veto I say... (http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/01/07/132732247/obama-puts-veto-threat-in-writing-for-bill-to-repeal-health-overhaul)

[DarrinS]

What assumptions are CBO estimates based on and are those assumptions valid?

[fraga]

Hold on...let me find some Fox "News" statistics to back this up...

[DarrinS]

hold on...let me find some fox "news" statistics to back this up...

just answer the question

[boutons_deux]

Poll after poll has shown huge disappoint by the majority of Americans in the healthcare bill

.... because it didn't go far enough.

BCBS/California is doing an Anthem/California, saying they will raise premiums by 10s of % on individual policy holders.

maybe just maybe (but not hardly), Americans will force a hard-core public option taken out every pay check, like adult industrial countries already do. This will shrink the for-profit insurance industry back to boutique/gold-plated/supplementary plans.

A huge push in this direction will be when employer-paid health insurance becomes employee-taxable income, and likewise for the house mortgage tax break.

[CosmicCowboy]

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[fraga]

What assumptions are CBO estimates based on and are those assumptions valid?

Fox "News" Article... (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/06/budget-office-says-health-care-repeal-add-b-deficit-years/#)

I see someone's been copying and pasting talking points again...and straight from a Boehner quote...shame shame...

[boutons_deux]

"What assumptions are CBO estimates based on and are those assumptions valid?"

Do Your Own Research, I Don't Have Time

Regards,
Wild Cobra

[ElNono]

What assumptions are CBO estimates based on and are those assumptions valid?

Since you seem to care, what did you find out?

[fraga]

Here DarrenS...go to town...

CBO letter sent to Boehner. (http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/120xx/doc12040/01-06-PPACA_Repeal.pdf)

[boutons_deux]

The baseline estimates show that 250,000 jobs will be lost annually if health reform is repealed. Annual job losses would average 400,000 using the greater estimate of 1.5 percentage point cost increases annually resulting from repeal.

The baseline estimates show that 250,000 jobs will be lost annually if health reform is repealed. Annual job losses would average 400,000 using the greater estimate of 1.5 percentage point cost increases annually resulting from repeal.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/07/hcr-repeal-costs-jobs/

[MannyIsGod]

In other news, the sky is blue.

[George Gervin's Afro]

What assumptions are CBO estimates based on and are those assumptions valid?

shouldn't you be rummagin through the right wing blogosphere for your response? Why are you lazy?

[boutons_deux]

Republicans released a counter-report containing their own twisted "portrayal of the financial effects of keeping the law intact," reports the Washington Post.

The report, filled with the incendiary language the GOP has adopted to discuss the law, is entitled: "Obama-care: A budget-busting, job-killing health care law" and features on its cover a gate padlocked with a thick chain.

The GOP report contests the CBO's assessment that the law would lower the deficit. And it picks apart aspects of the law that Republicans especially dislike, including a requirement that many employers offer their workers health coverage or incur a fine, and tax reporting requirements.

In other words, a pile of lies plastered with partisan catch-phrases.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/427920/republicans_release_bogus_report_contesting_the_cb o%27s_finding_that_heathcare_repeal_would_cost_%24 230_billion/#paragraph3

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