GOP healthcare bill would leave 95 percent of uninsured without coverage

By John Byrne
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 -- 8:35 am
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john.boehner.gi GOP healthcare bill would leave 95 percent of uninsured without coverageThe House Republicans' healthcare bill has left Congressional budget auditors scratching their heads.

An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has found that the Republicans' proposed healthcare overhaul would cover just 3 million Americans by 2019, and leave 52 million Americans uninsured -- effectively covering just 5 percent of those who would otherwise be uninsured.

That means 95 percent of those who are uninsured will still be without coverage in 2019.

What’s more, the number of non-elderly Americans lacking insurance would likely remain unchanged from today – with 17 percent of Americans having no health insurance.

The New York Times notes:

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The Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that an alternative health care bill put forward by House Republicans would have little impact in extending health benefits to the roughly 30 million uninsured Americans, but would reduce average insurance premium costs for people who have coverage.

The Republican bill, which has no chance of passage, would extend insurance coverage to about 3 million people by 2019, and would leave about 52 million people uninsured, the budget office said, meaning the proportion of non-elderly Americans with coverage would remain about the same as now, at roughly 83 percent.

The budget office has said that the Democrats’ health care proposal would extend coverage to 36 million people, meaning that 96 percent of legal residents would have health benefits. The Democrats’ bill would cost $1.1 trillion, with the costs more than covered by revenues from new taxes or cuts in government spending, particularly on Medicare.

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  • suzisunshine
    "I am my brothers keeper" ........
  • My place or yours
  • nikolai
    You see, the repubs really aren't thinking ahead or they would grant the bare minimum of insurance to keep a bare minimum of the poorest Americans healthy so they could then slave them to death in their factories, restaurants, hotels, construction sites, etc. Oh wait, that's what we have illegal aliens for, who get free healthcare at the expense of us poor Americans who can't afford health insuance...
  • dennycrane
    Isn't that just part "B" of their "Don't get sick, but if you do, die quickly?" It reminds me of their "roll of plastic and duct tape" solution to a terrorist attack. Which might come in handy when you do get sick. They just wrap your ass up in plastic and wait for Monty Python's "The Dead Collector": ...."Bring out yer dead"............
  • jimbo701
    I would expect nothing less from the party that has no conscience. I often wonder how they can go home at night and face their families knowing they're trying to pass legislation that will kill 250,000 Americans per year. If they don't pass a public option I'm all in favor of eliminating THEIR taxpayer funded medical insurance. If we did that you could bet your ass that the ONLY option on the table would be the public option.
  • douvie
    Great shot of the Boner-- he looks like the snapping turtle he is. BTW, the Republican health plan is for the health of the insurance companies, not the public.
  • thepoliticalcat
    They've had 140 days to come up with something, and this is all they could do? They'll cover one out of every 20 people who don't currently have insurance? That won't even make a dent in the problem. And how much will it cost?

    Do these whiners do*any* work at all?
  • tdoff
    Big suprise. Republcian bill written to not help but make things worse. Next they will go and dergulate the banks and put us into a depression. Oh wait they alredy did this. Republican eat their young.
  • TaterSalad
    You really didn't have anything of substance to say did you except that you like to be on the liberal bandwagon. Get your licks in because in 2010 the Dems are going to be the minority!
  • john_q_citizen
    "The budget office says the Republican plan would reduce federal deficits by $68 billion over the 10 year period, and push down premiums for privately insured people."

    It appears that the Republican plan REDUCES deficits. Also, it's fully paid for, guarantees that anyone who would like insurance can get insurance (regardless of pre-existing conditions--by the expansion of high risk pools), drives down premium costs for everyone who purchases insurance, and allows for personal freedom by not forcing people into plans they don't want. The uninsured under this plan are those people who choose not to be uninsured because this plan guarantees access and reduces cost.
  • rickpetes
    You're not very bright, are you? Most people that don't have insurance, can't afford insurance, so they DON"T HAVE A CHOICE. I'd like to see you buy private insurance if you're making $15 - $20 per hour. And most are making less. Geez. What a Maroon!
  • tdoff
    In insurance circles this behavior is called "Assigned Risk", and anyone in a state that has assigned risk for car insurance can tell you the horror and pit of hell your in when you're "at risk". Rates that are triple the normal driver, just because some old lady t-boned you and your insurance drops you. All this is going to do is seperate the wheat from the chaff for the insurance companies who will slowly designate everyone who ever goes puts ina claim "at risk" the system will become bloated and bankrupt. Insurance companies run this country now, not the people.
  • jelly450
    If you believe that BS you deserve to be a republican.
  • dennycrane
    The republikans got together for a month and only came up with a "turd." One stepped on it. One ate it. One smoked it. One stole it and one wrote his name on it. And they all claim it.
  • SuperGoof09
    Boehner reminds me of Fess Parker who used to play Daniel Boone on TV...just slap a coonskin cap on the guy and give him a musket....send him off into the wilderness to shoot Squirrel.
  • I do not understand why so many of you want to pay for the health care of another person. If it happens that you have so much extra money around - I will provide my address and I promise to spend it wisely.
  • Brittanicus
    Has anybody thought deeply about the consequences of another illegal immigrant amnesty? Let's forget for the moment that suddenly 20 to 30 million people are going to be legalized? That Sanctuary states like California, New Mexico have been financially ridden hard into the ground, because illegal workers and their families are feeding at a gold mine at the taxpayer expense. Let’s not mention that since the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli bill, those made legal, was able to bring into the United States their extended family members. That although they signed an affidavit to support those, many ended up at the taxpayer’s expense. So let's ignore the expenditures to educate, free health care treatment and all the rest of hidden costs of subsidizing a large portion of the US population. The fact that the businesses that draw them here, from every corner of the world--PAYS NOTHING TOWARDS THEIR UPKEEP. IT'S FREE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES FOR PARIAH BUSINESS, BETTER KNOWN AS CORPORATE WELFARE? Every one of the Democratic leadership have used their influence to weaken E-Verify, county police fed program 287 (g) and ICE raids on businesses.

    So president Obama bypasses the masses the hard pressed American, who have entreated him--NO BLANKET AMNESTY! No path to citizenship! So the millions already here get a free ride to your pensions, social security, public option health care welfare. Who in the world is going to pay for all these legalized individual, followed by the onslaught of millions more looking for free health care? NOW HERE COMES THE FIRESTORM! Have we taken leave of our senses, to think for one moment that another amnesty which is in the works? That a single layer fence is going to hold back millions upon millions more people will--COME? This will not be small meandering lines of illegal aliens, crossing the border during the hours of darkness? This is going to be an unimaginably rush at a defenseless 9.000 border patrol agents, that is--Expected?--to hold at bay those who reach our border? Not even the National Guard and regular GI's could stop the wave upon wave? They will sweep in from El-Salvador, Columbia, Guatemala, Peru, Chile and of course Mexico. They will arrive from Canada, Ireland, Poland and Romania by plane clutching a tourist visa.

    Every corner of the world will hear the resounding trumpet call of Osama’s AMNESTY. Chinese immigrants with tourist visas will fly into Mexico City and perhaps terrorists smuggled in by M 13 gang members? Not just the poor, but the sick, mentally handicapped along with criminals, absconding from the arm of the law across this planet. NOW THE MOST URGENT QUESTION IS? WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THIS? We are already swallowing the massive funding for Iraq and Afghanistan. We cannot even find jobs for hapless 15 million American workers, who (if true) are joining day-laborers at Home Depot, Walmart, and Lowe's parking lots? So who is going to house, feed and pay-out--more strained US taxpayer money? Perhaps we should send families of illegal aliens to squat in Sen. Harry Reid's gated home in Nevada. Send another crowd to live in House Speakers Nancy Pelosi's grape plantations in Central California. How about Chuck Schumer, HS Chief Janet Napolitano, Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein, Gil Cedillo leaving their house key under the mat, for some large family from Indonesia, India to find?

    Let's give them free bus fare to each and every politician with a lousy immigration grading, such as Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) or the whole Sacramento Liberal Marxist assembly, who have sold bona-fide legal Angelino’s into state insolvency? Why not have them live-in at every ACLU office and their communist lawyers so they could feed them. Every pro-illegal immigrant Chamber of Commerce member could open a spare room and settle some family members, until more brothers and sisters could be sponsored and join them. The Catholic Church and other religious groups could welcome them at the church doors and distribute money from the plate? The minority of Evangelicals churches could open up the rectory, accommodating hundreds of cots from the tired and poverty stricken. All the anti-sovereignty lawmakers should have plenty of room in their Virginia mansions, their custom ranches for large numbers of impoverished families. Even the President has that large White structure--could exhibit some kindness to homeless families and FEMA could establish a tent city in the grounds? Any of the House and Senate who compromised illegal immigration enforcement, should announce their address for resettlement of people who just run the gauntlet at the under funded border fence.


    Let's face it these people who call us names such as xenophobes bigots and worse, adding ugly cuss words to their vocabulary should also open their doors to anybody who enters America illegally. Microsoft multi-billionaire Bill Gates and the thousands of businesses that don't incur a darn cent should bring these family members together in their giant homes. Corporate owners who have colluded with State governors, Mayors, Judges and other lower echelon officials, should participate with a welcome mat. Perhaps American workers should obtain a hard copy list of every unpatriotic American and give illegal matriarch a page of addresses for their extended illegal families? We have San Francisco’s mayor Galvin Newsom and Los Angeles Antonio R.Villaraigosa and all the other--SANCTUARY CITIES AND STATES who have completely ignore federal laws, can also give refuge in their abodes to incorrigible
    gang members who have killed without conscience, illiterate drunk laborers who have slaughtered families on our streets, because they could comprehend English warning signs.


    Then just picture the traffic chaos in every corner of America, unless you live in an isolated ranch in the Mohave Desert, in California. We think we have road rage now, but give it a few weeks after unfettered AMNESTY. I even have a better idea. Open America’s doors completely? No Ellis Island, Galveston Island. No documents, no inspections. NO NOTHING. Give everybody a bus ticket of their choosing, to where they wish to go? See how long the open border zealots put up with that progressive rush to overpopulation. IF you have changes of heart give a tongue-lashing to your legislators at 202-224-3121 in Washington. Learn the financial services in billions of dollars to foreign nationals at NUMBERSUSA,. Hidden corruption that has finally been uncovered, at JUDICIAL WATCH? What the US Census has to say about the POPULATION GROWTH in the future of our children at CAPSWEB? Our population will escalate from 255 million to 383 million by the year to 2050? The next 100 million will suffocate our ability to maintain water, energy, food, communication, infrastructure and a balanced environment.
  • TaterSalad
    Yes! Now here is aplan we can live with allowing a few tweeks. There is no government option in this bill and our kids do not go into debt. 65 and older will still have their Medicare also and not the $500 Billion diverted out of Medicare which we put into all our lives. Great! Where do Vote?
  • TaterSalad
    To the Democrats & Republicans in Congress who don’t quite get it: I want to offer a personal pledge. I and a lot of other people have every intention of removing you from Congress in the next election if you stand in the way of health care legislation that the majority of the American people want but without any type of public option attached. That is not a hollow or idle threat. We will come to your district and we will work against you, first in the primary and, if we have to, in the general election. We do not want the "Public Option (single payer of any kind)".....period! Rest assured, we are all watching how you vote now and in the future.
  • TaterSalad
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