Comments on: Policy Update – 2009/9/9

By: This is a Bombshell: CBO Will Score Senate Finance’s Health Care Bill Over 20 Years | John Goodman | NCPA

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:33:48 +0000

[...] previously reported, once Obama Care is fully phased in, it will cost $2 trillion, not $1 trillion. The bill writers have been playing tricks with the ten-year window to make things [...]

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:13:46 +0000

Why hasn’t the national news media covered these goon squad tactics on the left?

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:12:28 +0000

I think the Baucus tax is potentially much higher.
The draft that is circulating around says that if employers fail to provide insurance, they must pay a tax equal to the subsidy people will be eligible for in the Exchange. For family coverage we are talking about $12,000 at least and for a low income family, the govenment subsidy is going to be $9,000 or more. And that $9,000 fine, of course, will come out of the wages of the worker.

By: Larry C.

Larry C. — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:16:50 +0000

The Marty Feldstein estimate is an eye opener.