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Health Care Financing Reform: (110) CBO and JCT Reports on Reconciliation Bill, H.R. 4872

March 20, 2010

     Here is a summary of the revenue effects of H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010, based upon an examination of the reports released Thursday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT).

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Health Care Financing Reform: (109) Counting Votes in the House on the Abortion Funding Issue

February 25, 2010

     Amy Sullivan of Time Magazine published an article yesterday counting votes in the House of Representatives on the abortion funding issue.  Her conclusions are summarized below.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (107) Huge Increases in the Cost of Health Insurance – How Will They Affect the Outcome of Health Care Reform

February 19, 2010

     Following reports of Wellpoint's 39% increase for individual health insurance coverae in California comes news of even larger increases in other states – up to 56%, according to this article by Ricardo Alonso-Zalvidar of the Associated Press.  Which way will this cut in the current debate over health care reform?

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Health Care Financing Reform: (105) Senator Gregg's Plan

February 16, 2010

     In yesterday's post I described the President's invitation of Congressional leaders of both parties to a bipartisan health care summit on February 25, and how Judd Gregg (R-NH) has responded by stating that he is looking forward to the summit where he will put forth his plan for health care reform.  What is his [...]

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Health Care Financing Reform: (104) Republican Views on the Upcoming Health Care Summit

February 15, 2010

     Hopes are high but expectations are low for the upcoming bipartisan health care summit called by President Obama.  How are Republicans approaching this meeting?

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Health Care Financing Reform: (103) The New CMS Report on the Senate Bill Describes Who Will Be Covered and Who Will Not, and States That Prevention and Wellness Programs Won't Reduce Costs

January 11, 2010

     The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued another report estimating the financial and coverage effects of the health care reform bill as adopted by the Senate on December 24, 2009.  The good news is that CMS believes that the Senate bill will expand health insurance coverage to 34 million more people.  The [...]

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Side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate Health Care Proposals

January 8, 2010

The New York Times compares the House and the Senate Health Care Proposals on 16 key issues.  Some of the major issues compared are:  individual mandates, employer contributions, subsidies for individuals, abortion coverage, illegal immigration coverage, cost and coverage of the two proposals and who pays for the proposals.
At the New York Times Health Care [...]

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Health Care Financing Reform: (100) An Appeal to My Liberal and Conservative Friends

December 30, 2009

     Liberals and conservatives both find much to dislike in the health care reform legislation, and many persons in each camp are opposed to the current measure.  I urge both groups to reconsider.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (99) No Conference Committee to Resolve Differences Between House and Senate Bills

December 29, 2009

     The differences between the House and Senate health care reform legislation will be reconciled not by a conference committee, but rather informally by the leadership of the House and Senate, in consultation with the White House and with Senators and Representatives whose votes are necessary for passage of the measure.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (98) The Employer Mandate ("Play or Pay") in the House and Senate Bills

December 28, 2009

     Another difference between the House and Senate health care reform bills is with respect to the "employer mandate" – more accurately, the provisions that penalize employers that fail to provide health insurance to their employees.  In general, the House bill contains a stronger employer mandate than the Senate bill.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (97) Extent of Coverage and Subsidies in the House and Senate Bills

December 27, 2009

     If a principal goal of health care reform is universal coverage, both the House and Senate bills fall short of this ideal.  But each bill gets us most of the way there.

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Health Care Financing Reform: (96) The Public Options in the House and Senate Bills

December 26, 2009

     It is well-known that the House bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, contains a "Public Health Insurance Option" - a government-run health insurance company that would have competed with private insurers to provide coverage for American citizens.  It is also well-known that the Senate rejected this provision in its bill, the Patient Protection and [...]

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