From our friends at the National Health Law proggram:
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) yesterday released scoring analysis showing that the Republican House bill repealing health reform (H.R. 2, the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act”) would add $230 billion to the national deficit by the year 2021, and significantly higher sums in the following decade. The report also notes that 32 million individuals will lose insurance coverage and those who don't lose coverage will end up having higher costs for their coverage if the repeal bill is passed. This scoring puts Republicans somewhat on the defensive in advance of the expected House vote and passage of the repeal bill scheduled for Wednesday, January 12, given that the Republicans have made deficit reduction one of their top stated priorities. The scoring also creates a procedural problem for the Republicans, who altered the House rules to require that all legislation be fully paid for. Republicans stated earlier in the week their intention to skirt this conflict by using a special exception
See: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47000.html
Below is the link to the CBO scoring letter followed by the text of a New York Times article discussing the scoring.
Download CBO score of HR2 PPACA repeal
Download NY Times Text Defining CBO Scoring
Also, the National Women’s Law Center is circulating a sign-on letter opposing the repea which can be accessed at the link below:
Download Vote No on HR2 (January 10 2011)
If you’d like to sign on, please send an email by 4pm Monday (EST) to Kate Dickerson at kdickerson@nwlc.org – the sign-on is focused on national groups. You may also want to call your Representatives and register your opinions directly – the National Women’s Law Center has set up a toll-free line to tell your Representatives to vote no on repealing the health care law – call 877-667-6650.
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