Posts Tagged ‘House Health Bill’
Heritage Research
The Health Care Summit: A Chance to Start Over and Get It Right
This week, the President will invite Members of Congress from both parties to a summit to discuss bipartisan ways to achieve health care reform. If the meeting is to be a success, lawmakers must scrap the House and Senate bills, as well as the President’s recent proposal, and begin afresh. Here, Heritage analyst Nina Owcharenko outlines the way forward on bipartisan reform that will give Americans, not the government, greater control over their health care.
Tags: government-run health care, Health Care Summit, House Health Bill, Obama Health Care Plan, President's proposal, Senate Health Bill
Key Documents
House Health Care Bill [HR 3962]
“America’s Affordable Health Choices Act”
Full Text of the 1990 page House Health Care Bill (released 10/29).
10/29 CBO Score of the House Bill.
Implementation Outline
Detailed Summary
Immediate Investments on the Road to Reform
Section-by-Section Analysis
10/29 Letter from 40 GOP Senators to Senator Harry Reid (D-NV).
10/29 Letter from Blue Dog Democrats to the Congressional Budget Office.
11/4 CBO Cost Estimate of HR 3961, Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act.
11/5 CBO to Rep. Dingell (D-MI), regarding manager’s amendment.
11/5 Summary of Amendments submitted to the Rules Committee.
11/13 Report from the Office of the Actuary at CMS with an updated analysis of the Pelosi bill.
Tags: House Health Bill
Heritage Research
That Was Then: Exploding ‘Health Reform’ Costs
President Obama and congressional leaders are desperately searching for a way to finance their fast-track power grab over the health-care sector. Both the House and Senate bills, backed by the administration, would cost well over $1 trillion over 10 years.
Read the paper here.
Tags: cost, health reform, House Health Bill, Senate Health Bill
Heritage Research
New Taxpayer Subsidies: The Impact of the House and Senate Health Bills
Under the House and Senate bills, taxpayers are going to pay more for health insurance.
Health insurance is supposed to provide individuals access to quality health care and ensure protection against financial calamity due to a catastrophic illness or injury. But as the cost of insurance rises as a percentage of a family’s budget, so does the rate of uninsurance. To make insurance more affordable, the cost of care needs to be lowered or subsidies will need to be provided (or some combination thereof).
Read more here.
Heritage Research
Medicaid Expansion: The Impact of the House and Senate Health Bills
Further expansion of Medicaid would create new inequities among individuals, even within families.
Read more here.
Key Documents
House Tri-Committee Bill
The House Tri-Committee Health Reform Discussion Draft:
Click here to read the Full Bill Text.
Click here to read the Bill Summary.
Click here to read the June 30, Section-by-Section Analysis.
Click here to read the Letter to Pelosi from Pro-Life Dems [June 25, 2009].
Click here to read the Letter to Pelosi from the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition [July 9, 2009].
Tags: House Health Bill, House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Tri-Committee
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