Comments on: What To Make Of The CBO’s New Cost Estimate Of The HELP Bill http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/02/cbo-help-i/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: stateofthedivision http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/02/cbo-help-i/comment-page-1/#comment-155016 stateofthedivision Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:34:12 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/?p=17470#comment-155016 <em>20 million: Number of uninsured in 2019, compared to 54 million without reform.</em> It's a partial solution: http://stateofthedivision.blogspot.com/2009/05/americas-uninsured-to-get-partial.html This shows Obama's logic for cutting payments to safety net providers, "as everyone will be covered", as hollow words. The Obama plan is not close to comprehensive, will be phased in over years, and favor the for-profit health care sector. His pay for performance plans for health care will deform, just as it did on Wall Street. Obama's plans to add more primary care doctors is laughable. 20 million: Number of uninsured in 2019, compared to 54 million without reform.

It’s a partial solution:

http://stateofthedivision.blogspot.com/2009/05/americas-uninsured-to-get-partial.html

This shows Obama’s logic for cutting payments to safety net providers, “as everyone will be covered”, as hollow words.

The Obama plan is not close to comprehensive, will be phased in over years, and favor the for-profit health care sector. His pay for performance plans for health care will deform, just as it did on Wall Street.

Obama’s plans to add more primary care doctors is laughable.

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