Comments on: New poverty guidelines could lead to higher than predicted health care costs

By: New Poverty Count Means More Expensive Reform

New Poverty Count Means More Expensive Reform — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:36:00 +0000

[...] Originally published October 22, 2009 at True/Slant. [...]

By: E.D. Kain - American Tory – Olympia Snowe and the trigger option - True/Slant

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:03:51 +0000

[...] At this point it’s almost impossible to know what will happen. With Democrats split in the Senate, and Olympia Snowe a verifiable wild card, now there’s news breaking that the House bill may in fact cost over $1 trillion dollars over the next ten years – a full $150 billion more than estimated. And this doesn’t even take into account the possible public costs of subsidies and Medicaid if poverty guidelines are adjusted to the new NAS standards. [...]

By: markthompson

markthompson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:25:28 +0000

If only we had a Republican Party interested enough in health care reform to work out a deal that would both reform health care and not result in adding ever-more mountains of costs to the already-too-large deficit…