{"id":2193,"date":"2009-11-19T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T15:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2009-11-19T11:01:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T16:01:37","slug":"new-health-care-bill-still-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2193\/new-health-care-bill-still-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"New Health Care Bill: Still Awful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the newest iteration of health care \u201creform.\u201d\u00a0  Seeking to outdo Speaker Pelosi\u2019s 1,990 page bill, Reid\u2019s version measures in at 2,074 pages, longer than War and Peace.\u00a0  You can read and search through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/Read-the-2074-page-Health-Care-Reform-Bill-70463722.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">full version here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdoc.cfm?index=10731&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Congressional Budget Office<\/span><\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jct.gov\/publications.html?func=startdown&amp;id=3635\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Joint Committee on Taxation<\/span><\/a> have released cost estimates of the bill.\u00a0  Don\u2019t let Senate Democrats fool you, however.\u00a0  The actual cost of the bill is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> $849 billion, mainly because federal subsidies don\u2019t even kick in until 2014.<\/p>\n<p>When fully implemented, the actual cost of Harry Reid\u2019s bill is over $2.5 trillion, from 2014 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>If you like tax increases, you\u2019ll love the new bill.\u00a0  It contains over $500 billion in new taxes.\u00a0  The bill taxes health insurance, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2189\/botox-tax-back-real-housewives-revolt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Botox<\/span><\/a>, Health Savings Accounts, drug devices, and some employers and employees.\u00a0 No one escapes Uncle Sam&#8217;s scalpel in Harry Reid\u2019s version of &#8220;reform.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atr.org\/breaking-full-list-tax-hikesbr-senate-a4227\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click here<\/span><\/a> for a full list of tax hikes.<\/p>\n<p>More analysis later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the newest iteration of health care \u201creform.\u201d\u00a0 Seeking to outdo Speaker Pelosi\u2019s 1,990 page bill, Reid\u2019s version measures in at 2,074 pages, longer than War and Peace.\u00a0 You can read and search through the full version here. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,77,12,519,38,481],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care","tag-joint-committee-on-taxation","tag-senate","tag-speaker-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}