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Editor’s note: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently indicated she plans to use the House Ways and Means Committee version of health care reform as the base of the bill moving forward in the House. We’re reposting an analysis of what that bill looked like on the way out of committee and which ...
The House Health Care Bill: The Mandates —
The Foundry
The new House bill, H.R. 3962, builds on its predecessor from July in increasing the financial burden on low-income and moderate-income Americans.
The Individual Mandate. Like the earlier version, this bill requires the uninsured to pay an extra income tax — 2.5% of adjusted gross ...
The House Health Care Bill: A $700 Billion Tax Hike —
The Foundry
The New House Health Care Plan has several tax increases that will cost taxpayers $700 billion in the next ten years. Several of these taxes are new and were not in the earlier House bills.
The Surtax
The new Pelosi plan establishes a 5.4% surtax on joint filers with over $1 million in ...
The House Health Care Bill: New Taxpayer Subsidies —
The Foundry
The President promised that health care “reform” would expand coverage and choices for American families. Unfortunately, after a preliminary review of the “affordability credits” in the newly unveiled House bill (HR 3962), the opposite will occur. These credits limit access, limit choice and ...
The New House Health Bill: Latest Version of the Public Plan —
The Foundry
The new House bill ( H.R. 3962) contains a slightly revised version of the “public option”, a new government run health plan designed to compete against private health plans.
Pool of Eligible Enrollees. Under the original House tri-committee legislation ( H.R. 3200), in year one (2013), ...
What to Look For in the Latest House Health Care Bill —
The Foundry
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just unveiled a hulking 1,990 page House health care bill (H.R. 3962). The latest product, which dwarfs the 1,342 page Clinton Health Plan of 1993, is the latest evolution of the House process, which started with H.R. 3200. The House Speaker made a number of ...
Where is Harry Reid’s Obamacare Bill? —
The Foundry
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a 1,990 page House version of Obamacare, yet Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has yet to release the Senate version of Obamacare. On Monday, Reid announced that the secret negotiations on Obamacare had come to an agreement and he was submitting that ...
Public Plan Can Never Be “Conservative” —
The Foundry
The “public option,” or government-run health insurance plan, in the just-released House health care bill was previewed in the news media as a diluted form of hard-core liberal versions that the Left have pushed for months. While that may be the case, calling the public option “more ...
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