CBO* H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act: Boehner substitute...

[joeycola]

This is an email I got from the CBO:

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

The following has been added to CBO's Web site (www.cbo.gov):

* H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act
Cost estimate for the amendment in the nature of a substitute as introduced on November 3, 2009
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10705


from the website:


A Preliminary Analysis of a Substitute Amendment to H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act

This evening, CBO released a preliminary analysis of a substitute amendment to H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, proposed by Representative John Boehner, the Ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that the amendment would reduce federal deficits by $68 billion over the 2010-2019 period; it would also slightly reduce federal budget deficits in the following decade, relative to those projected under current law, with a total effect during that decade that is in a broad range between zero and one-quarter percent of gross domestic product.

That amendment contains several provisions that are intended to increase rates of insurance coverage by reducing its costs or subsidizing its purchase, including:


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[mstinamotorcity]

1. John Boehner

is a orange asshole

[joeycola]

2. Republican Bill Ignores Women's Health Care Issues SEIU Blog...

http://www.seiu.org/2009/11/republican-bill-ignores-womens-health-care-issues.php


SEIU Blog
3:13 PM Eastern - November 3, 2009
Republican Bill Ignores Women's Health Care Issues
By Jessica Kutch

A version of the Republican health care bill was leaked today, and it's underwhelming, to say the least. For starters, the draft bill completely ignores women's health care issues. In fact, there is not a single mention of "women" in the entire bill (and "woman" appears just once, in a passage about - surprise! - abortion). By comparison, The Affordable Health Care for America Act introduced by House Democrats has 101 mentions of "women" on 37 separate pages.

What are we supposed to think about all this? Are Republicans betting that insurance companies will fix the gender gap on their own? Will they magically start covering maternity care? Will they voluntarily stop treating rape and domestic violence as pre-existing conditions? Here are just a few other glaring omissions in this draft version of the GOP bill:


* Allows insurers to deny coverage due to "pre-existing conditions" (which, we've recently learned, range from underweight babies to rape and domestic violence victims)

* Allows insurers to withhold maternity coverage and follow-up visits for the baby's health

* Allows insurers to require limitless out-of-pocket costs, which have already resulted in sending millions of Americans into medical bankruptcy

* Allows insurers to continue the practice of "gender rating," whereby insurers often arbitrarily charge women up to 48% more than men for the same policies

[LatteLibertine]

3. I usually just call him Boner

[slipslidingaway]

4. Amazing how the CBO scored that so quickly when the Dems could not...

get the CBO to score a single payer amendment since August.

Very strange...

:think: