ICYMI: House Bill Fails Three Important Tests by Wide Margin
Posted by The Campaign on November 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM
David Broder, the long time columnist, writes about the promises that some elected leaders have been making about health care reform. Specifically he points to a four-part test of fiscal responsibility, writing that any health reform plan must:
“First,…pay for itself over 10 years. Second…not add to deficits beyond 10 years. Third…significantly reduce the tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded health care promises that we already have. Fourth…bend down — not up — the total health care cost curve as a percentage of GDP” (the gross domestic product).”
“An analysis by the Lewin Group shows that the Energy and Commerce Committee bill that was the basic blueprint for the House measure comes close to meeting the first of those tests and fails the other three, according to Walker, ‘by a wide margin.’”
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