{"id":98278,"date":"2009-12-24T08:08:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2009\/12\/24\/the-senate-health-care-bill-six-key-numbers\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T08:08:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:08:58","slug":"the-senate-health-care-bill-six-key-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/98278","title":{"rendered":"The Senate Health-Care Bill: Six Key Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HealthThe Senate just passed<\/a> its version of the health-care bill by a vote of 60-39. Over the next month or so, the Senate and House will try to work out the differences<\/a> between the bills. <\/p>\n

Here’s a quick overview of some of the key effects of the Senate bill, based on estimates from CBO<\/a> and the Joint Committee on Taxation<\/a> for the years 2010-2019.<\/p>\n

$395 billion<\/strong> in federal spending to expand the number of people covered by Medicaid and CHIP, insurance programs for the poor.<\/p>\n

$436 billion<\/strong> in federal spending pay for health-insurance exchanges that would largely be used by people who don’t get health insurance through work. Most of that money would be in the form of subsidies for insurance premiums for people earning up to four times the poverty level.<\/p>\n

$398 billion<\/strong> in new taxes. That includes the tax on high-value health-insurance plans, new fees on health insurers and drug and device makers, and higher payroll taxes for high earners.<\/p>\n

$483 billion<\/strong> in cuts to projected spending for Medicare and other programs. This includes reductions in projected costs for privately administered Medicare Advantage programs and a new formula<\/a> likely to lower annual increases in payments to hospitals.<\/p>\n

31 million<\/strong> additional people would have health insurance by 2019 because of the bill.<\/p>\n

23 million<\/strong> people in this country would still be uninsured.<\/p>\n

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The Senate just passed its version of the health-care bill by a vote of 60-39. Over the next month or so, the Senate and House will try to work out the differences between the bills. Here’s a quick overview of some of the key effects of the Senate bill, based on estimates from CBO and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}