Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The CBO report on the Senate health care legislation

Considering the amount of "spin" (lies?) Senate Democrats have been putting on the Congressional Budget Office's scoring of the current Senate health bill, you may want to read the CBO paper for yourself. It can be found online at the CBO website at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/107xx/doc10781/11-30-Premiums.pdf.

I call your attention to the "Summary of Findings" beginning on page 4. Basically it says this legislation will raise almost everyone's health costs one way or another. If your insurance costs don't go up, you tax bill probably will -- or (more likely) both will go up. Hardly a surprise.