Senator Harry Reid’s (D-NV) 2,074-page health care bill will increase family health insurance premiums by an average of ,100 a year, according to new figures released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).The CBO says that an average family plan will increase by 28% under the Reid bill – from ,000 per family to ,100 per family. In addition, a family of four with an income of ,000 will pay 17% more of its income for premiums and cost sharing in Reid’s government-run health care legislation.Reid’s bill will end up costing the American taxpayer .5 trillion and leave families with higher health care costs. “Reid’s legislative takeover of health care costs Americans .2 billion per page or .8 million per word!,” said TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty. “And what do we get for it? Socialized medicine and higher health care costs!”Senator Tom Coburn ...

U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said Democrats are working to create a “dependency class” in America in an effort to expand their political base and stay in power.“That’s part of the motive,” King said when discussing federal health-care reform efforts with reporters after a Tuesday taping of Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press.”King, who represents Iowa’s 5th District, said he will do what he can to try stop a health-care bill from heading to President Barack Obama’s desk, and he urged others who opposed the bill to join him.He said Democrats are moving toward nation health care, whether a public insurance option is included in the final bill or not.“That’s the goal; that’s the endeavor,” King said. “They’ll regulate everything, and when they do that, we will lose the liberty we have today to buy health insurance policies.”He predicted that if Congress passes ...

The health bill passed by the House of Representatives Sunday would cost Nevada taxpayers an extra 3 million from 2014-2019, to provide health care to the needy. According to early state estimates, the bill would make an additional 70,000 residents eligible for Medicaid. The state would be mandated to cover another 8,000 individuals who are now eligible but have not applied to be covered by the state health insurance program for the poor. About 209,000 Nevadans are currently covered by Medicaid. Including state and federal money, "the total cost of reform is .3 billion," said Mike Willden, director of the state Department of Health and Human Resources. Willden went through the numbers for the Nevada Vision Stakeholder Group, formed to develop a plan for the future, looking ahead as much as 20 years. Meanwhile, Gov. Jim Gibbons railed against the costs of the bill in a written ...

After months of deliberation, the House voted yesterday on its version of a health care reform bill. Titled the Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962 is an expansive bill that contains significant changes and reforms to our health care system. I voted against the bill.My vote against H.R. 3962 was not a rejection of health care reform; it was a rejection of a bill I believe fell short on some of the goals agreed upon by members of both parties and the president. In his address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama correctly stated that the number one problem our health care system faces is its unsustainable cost. We cannot expect to fully address our health care crisis unless we deal with the rising cost burdens on the federal government.The House version of the health care bill would ...