The GOP's #1 legislative goal is the repeal of President Obama's health care reform that passed during the last Congress. A new report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office shows such a repeal would drive up the deficit and cost over 30 million Americans their insurance:
Rescinding the federal law to overhaul the health care system, the first objective of House Republicans who ascended to power this week, would ratchet up the federal deficit by about $230 billion over the next decade and leave 32 million more Americans uninsured, according to congressional budget analysts. The rough estimate by the Congressional Budget Office also predicts that most Americans would pay more for private health insurance if the law were repealed. The 10-page forecast was delivered to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), installed a day earlier to shepherd the new GOP majority. He immediately dismissed it.
Full story.
The reforms passed by the last Congress were strongly supported by U.S. religious leaders - including the National Council of Churches. Health care reform was perhaps the most significant moral victory in American politics since the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Speaker Boehner is engaged in what George H.W. Bush once called "voodoo economics." Repealing the health care reforms championed by President Obama would further crush the economy and hurt millions of American families.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
