Health Reform Hub Keynote

New graphics on the Hub:

"Beefing Up Security"

From Nate Beeler, cartoonist for The Examiner newspapers.

AEI Health Expenditures

The American Enterprise Institute's Mark Perry offers this chart showing the increase of government health care payments over the past 50 years.

It's Not Government's Job

A Gallup poll from Townhall Magazine shows that for the first time in over a decade, Americans believe that it's not government's job to provide health care.

Reid Bill Bends the Federal Health Spending Curve Up

The Chief Actuary at the Department of Health and Human Services said that the House and Senate bills would increase national spending on health from 17 percent of the GDP (the most health care spending by any county) to 21.1 percent. This chart shows those proposed spending increases under the Senate bill, based on analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.   

Polster.com

This Pollster.com depiction of attitudes towards health care reform shows support rapid declining as opposition to current Congressional reform efforts grows.

PRI Senate Bill Cost

From Jeffrey Anderson of the Pacific Research Institute, a depiction of the true costs and timeframes of the Senate health reform proposal. Note that while the cost of the bill is estimated over a ten year period from 2009 to 2019, spending would continue to increase through 2023.

House Coverage CMS

Via KeithHennessey.com, this graph depicts the effects of the House-passed reform bill as reported by Chief Actuary of Medicare & Medicaid Rick Foster. 

As Hennessey notes:

"The bill would mean almost 30 million new people in government-run insurance, more than four times as many as would be newly insured through private coverage."
"By far the largest effect of the bill would be to enroll more than 23 million new people in two existing government programs, Medicaid and S-CHIP. Medicaid is today widely regarded as fiscally unsustainable before adding more people."
"Foster estimates that 18 million people would remain uninsured and have to pay the penalty tax. These people are clearly worse off than they would be under current law."

HR3962 Costs


This chart from the Senate Budget Committee shows the long-term costs of the House health reform proposal, and how the government plans to pay for the plan.

Key points:

By the time the proposed programs are fully implemented in 2023, the bill will have cost over $2.3 trillion.
Within the first five years, the government plans to take in $5 billion from individual mandate penalties; that number will jump to $122 billion by 2029.
The government also plans to take in $20 billion over the next five years from penalties against employers who don't provide coverage; that amount will be $534 billion by 2029.

Over the next 20 years, taxes will increase by $1.6 trillion to pay for the bill.

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