Democrats have made much hay this week over a report released Monday that says their health-reform legislation won’t do much to increase health insurance premiums for the vast majority of Americans, contrary to the frightening claims made all year by …
Read Original Story: Tethered to The Cost Curve – Myrtle Beach Sun News
Health-care reform legislation is continuing its steady progress through Congress, and we now think there is a high probability that reform legislation will pass in early 2010. We believe that our current fair value …
Read Original Story: CBO Report Makes Health Reform Likely to Pass – Toronto Star
"First, the bottom line of the report is simple: The CBO says premiums will go down for the vast majority of Americans, and that the same insurance policy will cost less under reform. "The confusion comes in the cbo’s analysis of the individual market, …
Read Original Story: Let's be clear… CBO says premium costs will fall with reform – Examiner.com
Both the House and Senate versions of the healthcare reform bill would require employers above a certain size to provide health insurance for their workers or face some sort of penalty. The House bill that passed last month would …
Read Original Story: Common Sense vs. the CBO on obamacare – Big Government (blog)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 /prnewswire-usnewswire/ — The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) issued the following statement regarding the estimate released today by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO): The CBO today confirmed what many …
Read Original Story: CBO Confirms That Premiums Will Increase Under the Senate Healthcare Reform Bill – PR Newswire (press release)
by Astrid Fiano, dotmed News Writer The Congressional Budget Office released an analysis undertaken with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) on how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, HR 3590, would affect premiums paid for …
Read Original Story: Health Care Reform Round-Up: CBO Finds Some Insurance Savings, New Amendments … – DOTmed.com (press release)
On Fox News’ Special Report, anchor Bret Baier misrepresented the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) analysis of the Senate health care bill’s effect on insurance premiums by claiming that "depending on how you read" the report, insurance "premiums …
Read Original Story: Quick Fact: Baier distorts CBO report to claim premiums "will actually go up … – Media Matters for America
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board/The Star-Led… Andrew Mills/The Star-ledgerresidents take notes from the audience as US Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th Dist.) speaks to residents of the Seabrook active-adult retirement community about healthcare reform in a …
Read Original Story: Health reform will not increase your premiums – The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
On Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, Stuart Varney misrepresented an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to falsely claim that under the Senate health care bill, the cost of "your employer-provided health care would not go up, only because of …
Read Original Story: Varney falsely claimed that under Senate bill, cost of employer-sponsored … – Media Matters for America
News organizations continue to report on reactions to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the Senate health bill. The Hill reports that "Senate centrists concerned that healthcare reform would do too little to lower insurance costs said …
Read Original Story: Reactions To CBO Report On Senate Health Bill Are Mixed – Kaiser Health News