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[Stealthmode Blog] The Cost to the Economy of Putting Health Care Reform on the Back ...: Thanks for visiting! The figures show how federal and state spending is taking a bigger role while Congress hesitates over a health-care overhaul.

[Not Really Stealthmode] The Cost to the Economy of Putting Health Care Reform on the Back ...: For the first time, government programs next year will account for more than half of all U.S. health-care spending, federal actuaries predict, as the weak economy sends more people into Medicaid and slows growth of private insurance.

[Jay Hancock's blog] Jay Hancock's blog: Health care: The sector that ate the economy ...: (3) The only option the majority will accept is a forced deregulation of the health care insurance market. As long as Barack Obama is president I do not see this happening unless Republicans do take over Congress in 2010 and, like Clinton in '95 with Welfare Reform, Obama realizes he would rather serve a second term than be a "wonderful" one-term president in the eyes of the far-left.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: "What I'd like to do is to have a meeting whereby I'm sitting with the Republicans, sitting with the Democrats, sitting with health care experts, and let's just go through these bills - their ideas, our ideas - and walk through them and in a methodical way so that the American people can see and compare," Obama said.

[MajimboKenya.com] » Obama calls for talks with GOP on health care, then vote by ...: Asked at a party fund-raising event about the Democratic strategy for health care reform going forward, Obama said Democratic leaders in the House and Senate were working out differences in the separate health care bills passed by each chamber last year.

[ProsperityAgenda.US] Federal government could be paying more than half the cost of ...: But in a separate report a month ago, CMS actuaries estimated that the Senate health care bill would boost total health care spending by less than 1 percent over the next decade, in large part because the legislation includes initiatives to make Medicare more efficient.

[KOSU Radio] Government Health Spending To Top Private Sector By 2012 | KOSU Radio: By 2012, government health care expenditures will top private spending for the first time, the report by the CMS actuaries says. The trend is expected to continue, with state, local and federal governments picking up a combined 52 percent of the nation’s health tab by 2019, the last year projected by the actuaries.

[Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the World Wide Web] Can health care reform save the American economy? | Capitol Hill Blue: "A chart in the budget shows that the three big entitlements, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, now consume 41 percent of the federal spending, aside from interest payments," Broder says. "On current trends, this will rise to 60 percent by 2030, when all surviving baby boomers will be 65 or older -- crowding out almost everything else the country needs from government."

[Economy In Crisis] Profound Disconnect of U.S. Congress Reps with their Constituents ...: Coffman expressed the same thinking as the Pope when he condemned Galileo for observing that the earth revolved around the sun instead of vice versa. Coffman showed (s) a complete lack of understanding that we're already drowning in too many immigrants with 20 million illegals while adding 1.2 million legal immigrants annually--yet 20 million American citizens cannot obtain a job and another 35 million live on food stamps.

[AFL-CIO NOW BLOG] AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | UI and Health Care Clocks Tick for Jobless ...: Time is rapidly running out for Congress to keep a vital lifeline available for jobless workers and their families. Both unemployment insurance (UI) for the long-term jobless and the COBRA extension to help unemployed workers maintain health care coverage expire Feb. 28.

[Mario Piperni dot Com] Mario Piperni dot Com » Blog Archive » Health Care Reform - It's ...: The fraction of Americans on the government’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program, now at 16.5%, would rise sharply to between 16.5% and 18.3%””and that’s without the much-derided “public option.”

Health Affairs Blog: The CMS analysts attribute this predicted growth in public spending in 2009 to projected growth in Medicaid enrollment (6.5 percent) and spending (9.9 percent) as a result of increasing unemployment related to the recession. Conversely, enrollment in private insurance is expected to have declined 1.2 percent in 2009, despite federal subsidies for Americans who have lost their jobs to extend their private insurance coverage via the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) that increased participation in these plans.

[Congress Park Neighborhood News] Congress Park Neighborhood News » Blog Archive » Talk in 10 ...: To develop a pool of eligible and qualified candidates for these openings, the Denver Office of Economic Development (OED) will host a Workforce Information and Pre-Recruitment Event, February 8, at the Benedict Park Place Enrichment Center, 135 Park Avenue West.

[John Goodman's Health Policy Blog] Can There Be Scaled-Down Health Reform? | John Goodman | NCPA: You will probably claim it is so that there can be specialization in chronic condition insurance related to the health status portion once a person contracts such a condition. However, what you are doing is unraveling the .... For healthy individuals, the difference in cost between community-rated and individually-underwritten coverage is effectively a head tax. Congress attempts to compensate for this highly regressive tax by adjusting the premium based on income. ...

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