CBO estimates Senate Finance Health Care Bill Will Cost $829 Billion and will leave 25 million uninsured

The CBO is expected to release the cost on the health package that is currently awaiting a vote in the Senate Finance Committee, the aides said. Numerous changes will likely bring the cost to around $900 billion over ten years, according to Fox News.

The Congressional Budget Office announced Wednesday that the sweeping health care overhaul bill awaiting a vote in the Senate Finance Committee will cost $829 billion over the next 10 years.

The preliminary report, released Wednesday by the non-partisan CBO, said the committee’s health care reform package will not add to the national deficit — and will save $81 billion over the next 10 years

“Our balanced approach to health reform has paid off yet again with the news today that the America’s Healthy Future Act remains fully paid for, begins to reduce the federal deficit within ten years and makes significant reductions in federal debt over the next several decades,” Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement Wednesday.

The CBO said that the bill would reduce rolls of uninsured by 29 million over the next 10 years — ensuring that 94 percent of Americans will be covered.

Congressional tax experts say the proposed legislation would require health care industries to pay $121 billion in taxes over 10 years — about $29 billion more than originally thought.

Finance Committee Republicans have been arguing the measure contains too many new taxes.

The committee’s proposal, which calls for co-ops instead of a so-called “public option,” has to be blended with the version approved by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, which does include the public option. Only then can it be considered by the full Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will face a difficult task in merging the two bills into one — and presumably one that includes the government-run insurance plan that he and other liberal Democrats have steadfastly backed.

The Finance committee voted last week to strike two amendments that would establish a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurance coverage. But the bill created in July by the Health Committee includes a public option and requires employers to offer insurance to their employees.

The question over whether Reid will push for a government-run insurance plan in the final legislation remains to be answered. Reid has said a public option is essential to reform, and other leading Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have stressed its importance in expanding coverage to the millions of uninsured.

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October 7, 2009 · Filed Under ObamaCARE

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4 Responses to “CBO estimates Senate Finance Health Care Bill Will Cost $829 Billion and will leave 25 million uninsured”

jim menzies on October 7th, 2009 3:50 pm

This 900 billion will grow to double that figure.Get your history of the spending habits of our goverment.They dont make money they give it away. Do the reading find out what they thought medicare would cost in 1965. I want reform too. Affordable reform. Lets work together..thanks
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Lisa on October 8th, 2009 5:38 pm

I hope this bill does some good.
Jed on October 9th, 2009 12:32 am

So 6% will remain uninsured. That is 18 million to 25 million Americans depending on what US population figure you go with…who are apparently helping pay for the plan with taxes?

Doesn’t that mean Dems have failed to provide insurance for all Americans?

This “$91 billion savings” figure is also misleading. It means they came in about that far under target. They are not actually saving anything, just spending about 10% less.

We need to say no to this plan. We all know it will balloon out of control, that this first draft is not the draft Democrats will settle on…

We really should never have started down the path of welfare and medicare.

About 2/3 of Americans are against this health care bill. Democrats should listen and drop it. As far as I can see, it is unconstitutional for government to get involved in such things, and ESPECIALLY HARMFUL at a moment when the dollar is on the verge of collapse from prior spending. Seriously, only Southeast Asia saved us this week from a total collapse.

See this Twitter tweet and link:

@ConsRepublicans “Asia steps in to support the dollar (for now at least) http://bit.ly/1pRsAa Can they still stand by us if health care passes? #hc09 #economy”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e894c54-b40f-11de-98ec-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1

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