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July 21, 2009Raising the Cost Curve
A new chart highlights that the House Democrats’ Tri-Committee Bill “significantly expands” the growth of U.S. health care costs — challenging another claim from President Obama: “If any bill arrives from Congress that is not controlling costs, that’s not a bill I can support.”
Tags: cost curve, growth, House Democrats
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July 16, 2009CBO Director: Health Reform Bills Would Weaken Economy
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf today said the health reform measures being drafted in Congress would worsen the nation’s budget projections and drive the country more deeply into debt, according to The Washington Post.
Elmendorf, responding to questions from the Senate Budget Committee, said bills do not propose “the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount.”
“On the contrary,” Elmendorf said, “the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health-care costs,” the Post reports.
Tags: CBO, cost curve, federal responsibility, Senate Budget Committee
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- Congressional Research Service Memorandum to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
- Letter from Senators Enzi and Coburn to Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius
- Letter to Health and Human Services Sectretary Sebelius from Senators Grassley and Enzi
- Congressional Budget Office letter to Chairman Stark of the Subcommittee on Health
- Proposed Rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the Medicare Program
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