Pelosi House Bill; $1.2 TRILLION...at least (Congress, drug, health care, Barack Obama)

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Cause we know, if that is their estimate, we can add 50% at least to it.

AP sources: House health bill totals $1.2 trillion - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul - broken link)

WASHINGTON – The health care bill headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 trillion or more over a decade, according to numerous Democratic officials and figures contained in an analysis by congressional budget experts, far higher than the $900 billion cited by President Barack Obama as a price tag for his reform plan.

While the Congressional Budget Office has put the cost of expanding coverage in the legislation at roughly $1 trillion, Democrats added billions more on higher spending for public health, a reinsurance program to hold down retiree health costs, payments for preventive services and more.

If they, or their supporters had ANY common sense, they would start over and do it one step at a time, piece by piece.

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Not only is the bill over $1.2 trillion, but that does not include the "doc fix" of $250 billion.

Nancy lied.

111 NEW bureaucracies;

House Republicans Find 111 New 'Bureaucracies' in Health Care Bill - FOXNews.com

Among some off the new agencies, the list cites a Health Insurance Exchange; the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; the Public Health Investment Fund; the Public Health Workforce Corps; an Assistant Secretary for Health Information; the Food and Drug Administration Office of Women's Health; grant programs for alternative medical liability laws, infant mortality programs and other issues; and about 100 other government-sponsored creations.