Analysis: Health care repeal will cost $230 billion

Health care repeal bill clears key hurdle in House
Source: CNN Washington (CNN) - Legislation repealing President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul cleared a key procedural hurdle in the House of Representatives Friday, likely setting up a final House vote to undo the measure next Wednesday. Read more: https://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/07/health-... / ...

Is Repealing Health Care Worth $230 Billion?
Is repealing Health Care worth $230 billion? The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says repealing Health Care reform would add $230 billion to the Deficit. Of course the idea could not go anywhere since Barack Obama has now talked about reigning in the deficit and Republicans are adamant about not adding anything to the deficit (OOPS! They’re the ones trying to Repeal it.) But the question lingers: is it worth repealing if it’d a...

House takes first step toward health care repeal
The new Republican-led House has taken the first step in its symbolic attempt to Repeal President Barack Obama's landmark Health Care overhaul. Democrats who still control the Senate say it won't get much further than that. Voting largely along party lines, the House on Friday set the rules for a debate next week that will culminate in an up-or-down vote on repeal. The House will then direct several committees to come up with a more modest replacement. But even if that works, the process could t...

Republicans Put Forth a Closed Rule for Repealing Health Care Reform
The House Republican majority gets started in earnest today on their push to Repeal the Affordable Care Act. On the schedule for today in the House is the rule that will set the procedural framework for next week’s votes on H.R.2, the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Act” and its counterpart H.Res.9, “instructing certain committees to report Legislation replacing the job-killing health care law.” This is the first rule on significant Legislation that the new R...

House plans test vote Friday on health care repeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House opens a largely symbolic debate Friday on whether to Repeal President Obama's landmark Health Care overhaul, the culmination of the first week with Republicans back in charge. A procedural vote around midday will set the rules for formal debate and final action next Wednesday. House Republicans want to Repeal Mr. Obama's plan to expand coverage to more than 30 million Uninsured and start over again with a more modest, less costly approach. But Democratic leaders...

The Best Defense Is...
E-mails from the administration go out to reporters all day. But the official "Statement of Administration Policy" from Thursday afternoon got my attention. It was about House Resolution 2, which is the Republican proposal to Repeal Health Care reform. The release stated that the administration "strongly opposes the measure" and then explained why: Repeal would mean higher Deficits, more people without Insurance, and less protection for consumers. At the end came one sentenc...

Democrats fight back to keep health care reform
Republicans began the 112th Congress on Wednesday with an agenda to Repeal Health Care reform Legislation that was signed into law by President Obama in March 2010.  President Obama and Congressional Democrats are fighting back to protect Health Care reform. President Obama's Grassroots team, Organizing For America (OFA), stated on their blog on Wednesday that Republicans want to turn progress made on Health Care reform into a partisan fight.  Because of their wins in the 2010 midterm ...

Rep. Paul Ryan Rails Against CBO On Health Care, But Hypes Report On His Budget Plan
Like many of his Republican colleagues, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) doesn't have much faith in the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's determination that repealing Health Care reform will increase the Deficit by $230 billion. Last night on right-wing talker Mark Levin's Radio Show, Ryan complained that "the Health Care bill is full of gimmicks and spending tricks" that steer the number crunchers to an unrealistic conclusion. "What they have is a piece of paper that the...

Rep. Lloyd Doggett: Once Again, Republican Party Shows It Is But Arm of Insurance Industry
Today, I spoke in opposition to the Republican rule to bring Health Insurance reform Repeal Legislation to the House floor. Initial estimates from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing health reform Legislation would add $230 billion to the Deficit. Unfortunately, the Republican Party is but an arm of the Insurance Industry. They ask for a vote to further empower those monopolies; we ask for a vote to empower American families. A vote to Repeal is a vote to main...

House votes to bring healthcare repeal to floor for debate
The House of Representatives on Friday voted to bring the Repeal of the healthcare overhaul to the floor for formal debate even as the latest poll showed that Americans slightly supported overturning one of the signature efforts of President Obama’s administration. In what was essentially a party-line vote, the House approved the rule required to bring the Repeal measure to the floor for final consideration next week. The vote was 236-181, with two lawmakers voting present. It was a highl...

Wrong, and Wrong On ACA Repeal Costs
I watched a bit of the House debate on ACA Repeal this morning, and since I've already written two posts on GOP distortions about costs, I think I'm obliged to note that the Democrats aren't exactly covering themselves in glory, either. The Democrats seem to be struggling to come up with exactly the right way to describe what Repeal would do, and sometimes they're really getting it wrong. Meanwhile, the GOP goes from bad to worse. (Sorry, but I'm not going to provide specific quotations here; i...

Paul Ryan: We Do Plan on Defunding ObamaCare
Friday, January 07, 2011 By Matt Cover Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in this March 19, 2010, photo. Republicans are promising to Repeal and replace President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul if they win control of Congress. (AP File Photo/Harry Hamburg) (CNSNews.com) - House Budget chief Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said that Republicans would use the appropriations process, along with the budget process, to deny funding for the Controversial ObamaCare ...

Few Democrats Back Health Care Repeal In Test Vote
The House voted 236-181 Wednesday, mostly along party lines, to pass a key procedural measure signaling its intent to Repeal the new Health Care law. Few Democrats joined the unanimous GOP majority in support of repeal. The final vote on the Repeal bill -- better known now as the "Repealing the Job Killing Health Care Law Act" -- is scheduled for Wednesday. [Ed. note: This post was edited after publication.] ...

Health care reform: House marches toward repeal vote
Health care reform law is top target of the new GOP House majority. But critics say GOP leaders set aside their pledges of fiscal restraint and openness in pushing forward on vote to Repeal it. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio (r.) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia held a news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday, as they pushed forward toward an up or down House vote on repealing the new Health Care reform law. After promising a new era of openness and fiscal restraint, Hous...

Harvard Economist Estimates Health Repeal Would Destroy Up To 400,000 Jobs Over Decade
Harvard Economist Estimates Health Repeal Would Destroy Up To 400,000 Jobs Over Decade Just as House Republicans gear up to repeal the “job killing” Affordable Care Act, the Department of Labor is reporting that the U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs last month, pushing the jobless rate down to a 19-month low of 9.4 percent. In fact, since President Obama signed health reform into law on March 23, 2010, The Economy has created approximately a total of 1.1 million new jobs in the pri...

CBO - Repealing HCR Would Add to Deficit
Posted by JM Ashby While the Republicans chase their own shadow in their farcical crusade to reduce the Deficit, the CBO has dished out some tangible numbers for what would occur should the Republicans have their way in repealing or defunding "ObamaCare." The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated overturning the reform signed by Obama last year would add about $230 billion to the deficit by 2021 and result in 32 million fewer people having Health Insurance... In a preliminary esti...

The Fed blasts Congress on budget
Bernanke blasts Congress on Budget Posted by Colin Barr January 7, 2011 10:21 am Yes, the U.S. economy may finally be recovering. American willpower to confront real problems? Not so much. To his credit, Ben Bernanke isn't here to make us feel better. The Federal Reserve chief devoted the last third of his prepared Testimony before the Senate Budget Committee Friday to a familiar complaint: that Congress isn't taking seriously the chronic – yet potentially acute – problem of U.S...

Republicans Are Given a Price Tag for Health Law Repeal, but Reject It
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR NYT WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan Budget scorekeepers in Congress said on Thursday that the Republican plan to Repeal President Obama’s Health Care law would add $230 billion to federal Budget Deficits over the next decade, intensifying the first legislative fight of the new session and highlighting the challenge Republicans face in pursuing their agenda. The new House Speaker, John A. Boehner, flatly rejected the report, saying it was based largely o...

Dems Still Working Hard To Thwart The Will Of The People On Health Care Reform
As most of us know, the American People were dead set against the passage of the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” which started out with the notion of reducing Health Insurance costs and providing coverage to the 30-45 million Americans that had no health Insurance, and escalated to a 2,000 page bill that none who voted “Yea” actually read nor understood, and did anything but reduce Health Insurance costs. We’ve all seen the fallout, that insurance costs would go up...

Democrats Ross and Boren Will Vote for Repeal
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Next week's Repeal vote is where the rubber will meet the road for the 13 House Democrats who voted against ObamaCare, as it's their chance to show whether they're really against the highly unpopular overhaul or not. Two of these 13 Democrats have already pledged to vote for repeal. Last night on Fox News, Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) said of ObamaCare, “On balance this is a 2,000-page bill that’s gonna hurt our economy, it&...

Repealing health-care reform would cost hundreds of billions of dollars -- and Eric Cantor knows it
By Ezra Klein WashPost House Republicans are in a pickle: One of their new rules says that new Legislation must be paid for. But the health-care bill reduces the federal Deficit by more than $100 billion over the next 10 years. Luckily, they've figured out an answer to their problem: They've decided to simply exempt the Repeal bill from the rules. That means they're beginning the 112th Congress by lifting their own rules in order to take a vote that will increase the deficit. Change we can bel...

Poll: Americans support healthcare repeal
With the House voting on repealing Healthcare Reform next week, 46 percent of Americans support the Repeal effort, while 40 percent want the law to stay, according to a new Gallup Poll. Fifteen percent of Republicans want the law to remain intact, while 24 percent of Democrats support repeal. Independents were more evenly split, with 43 percent favoring repeal, 39 against it and 18 percent Undecided. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) touted the poll results on his Twitter account Friday morning,...

House To Hold Test Vote On Health Care Repeal Today
The Republican-led House of Representatives today will hold a key test vote on its top priority: repealing the new Health Care law. The up-or-down vote will set the terms of the debate on the Repeal bill itself, which is scheduled to hit the floor (and pass) on Wednesday. During that debate, Democrats will be unable to introduce their own amendments and have been closed out of the process more generally. An earlier plan to force committee-level votes on popular elements of the bill was scuttl...

Peter Welchs Legislative Gambit on HCR
In a passionate seven-and-a-half minute plea to colleagues on the House Rules Committee, Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) asked the new Republican leadership to allow up-or-down votes on key aspects of the sweeping Health Care reform. • Free preventive care for seniors. To date, 65 House members have signed onto Welch’s push to allow these items to be voted on separately from the entire piece of Health Care reform Legislation. Welch took his plea directly to the House Rules Committee, which e...

Obama Plays Right Into Republicans Hands By Issuing Veto Threat On Obamacare Repeal
Politically playing directly into Republican's hands, Barack Obama wades into the ObamaCare Repeal fight being publicly fought in Washington between House Republicans and Senate Democrats by issuing a Veto threat should a Repeal bill make it to his desk. Is he worried that the 23 Senate Democrat that are up for Reelection might actually vote to Repeal Obamacare? By The Numbers Polling numbers, averaged by RCP from a variety of polling organizations, show that on average 53.4 percent of of Amer...