Whatever happened to the CBO scoring of a single payer health insurance option?

[JDPriestly]

[Cleita]

1. They ran out of toilet paper in the Senate's men's room. n/t

[DJ13]

2. Cant let that info out

Releasing the data would make the bills the corporations want impossible to pass.

[kath]

6. Ding, ding, ding, ding! A WINNAH, folks, a WINNAH!!

[jtrockville]

3. Don't you realize?

Don't you realize we owe the health insurance industry all the profits they can beg/borrow/steal? We exist only to serve the industry. If a CBO score of single-payer was done, it should be our main goal to ENSURE the media does NOT report anything about it.

Got it?
:sarcasm:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. What single payer health insurance option?

[JDPriestly]

11. H.R. 676. Didn't Weiner request a CBO assessment?

[librechik]

5. sure, we'll score it for you, but since it's not on the table, no hurry

Is 2016 ok?

[joeycola]

7. We all need to call Hoyer's office................

House Leadership Seeks CBO Score for HR676; single-payer will get a floor vote
Dem on Dem Violence Department of Why Can't We Do That?
Mon, 08/31/2009 - 1:26am — Sarah
Democratic members of the House of Representatives are hearing the people. Keep the pressure on! It started with the tenacious Anthony Weiner of New York. California's Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, changed her mind in July and said single payer would get an up-or-down floor vote.

Now Maryland's Steny Hoyer, House Majority Leader, says the Congressional leadership has asked the Congressional Budget Office to score House Resolution 676, entitled "To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes" -- aka United States National Health Insurance Act.

This bill's other short title is the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act -- and according to SinglePayerAction, Hoyer's told a constituent he'll address single payer and the effort to get HR 676 scored at a town hall this week:



http://www.correntewire.com/house_leadership_seeks_cbo_score_hr676_single_payer_will_get_floor_vote

[truedelphi]

17. Very good and informative thanks

[KharmaTrain]

8. It Just Came In $850 Billion

Big Ed is discussing it right now...

[slipslidingaway]

9. I listened and they were not discussing SP, the CBO released ...

this today.

Preliminary Analysis of the Chairman's Mark for the America's Healthy Future Act, as Amended
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10642

I missed the first few minutes, but from what I heard it was the Baucus bill.

:shrug:

[JDPriestly]

12. The CBO states that the Baucus bill would lower the budget deficit

over a period of time. The CBO analysis says nothing about whether the Baucus bill would lower the cost of health insurance to the nation, to the middle class in particular. Also, the CBO analysis shows that a considerable number, about 1/3 of whom would be illegal immigrants would remain uninsured.

By 2019, CBO and JCT estimate, the number of nonelderly people who are uninsured would be reduced by about 29 million, leaving about 25 million nonelderly residents uninsured (about one-third of whom would be unauthorized immigrants). Under the proposal, the share of legal nonelderly residents with insurance coverage would rise from about 83 percent currently to about 94 percent. Roughly 23 million people would purchase their own coverage through the new insurance exchanges, and there would be roughly 14 million more enrollees in Medicaid and CHIP than is projected under current law. Relative to currently projected levels, the number of people either purchasing individual coverage outside the exchanges or obtaining coverage through employers would decline by several million.

http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=387

In my view, the Baucus bill will not lessen the negative effect of health insurance costs on the economy as a whole. It will just shift the burden of those costs from one sector of society to another. That is not a solution. That is the illusion of a solution. The Baucus cure is at least as bad as the disease if not worse.

[slipslidingaway]

14. Thanks for the summary as I've yet to read through the links...

it still leaves a large portion of people not covered, we should be able to figure out how to do this.

I've called Weiner's office several times on the SP score, but no real answers.

:(

[DCKit]

15. Exactly. The Baucus plan is a Fed win - consumers are required (by law) to pay.

I want to see the CBO scoring for Medicare 4 All.

[Festivito]

16. 829B$ covers 100%, now we pay 2,400B$ to cover 85% of US!

829 billion covers everyone for everything.

FIVE times that amount covers 85% of US for less and less health care.

We pay more to cover fewer people and cover fewer pre-existing conditions.

Yikes.

[slipslidingaway]

10. People need to call Weiner's office as well, I surely hope that people

did not stop asking for SP to be scored when they read it was being scored over the August recess.

Two months later...nothing.

:(

[JimWis]

13. I was wondering what happened to the CBO scoring on HR 676

too. There was a promise that it could be scored and voted on.