{"id":1403,"date":"2009-12-01T07:31:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T07:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2009-12-01T07:31:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T07:31:51","slug":"if_the_healthcare_bill_passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"If The Healthcare Bill Passes, We Can Expect Higher Insurance Premiums&#8211;Not Lower Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/New-CBO-figures-show-some-premiums-would-go-up-78154277.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;reported that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released figures showing that health insurance costs will rise if the current healthcare bill is passed.&nbsp; Roughly 43 percent of the American people would be paying more for their health insurance.&nbsp; Everyone&#8217;s premiums would increase, but 57 percent of Americans would recieve government subsidies to cover the increase in premiums.&nbsp; Where does the money come from to finance the government subsidies&#8211;the taxpayers.&nbsp; We get hit coming and going!<\/p>\n<p>The CBO also reports that 19 percent of people with private insurance plans would be hit by the &#8216;luxury tax&#8217; on those plans.&nbsp; All premiums would be expected to increase slightly due to the&nbsp;fees that would be levied&nbsp;on insurance companies and the taxes levied on &nbsp;manufacturers of medical devices.<\/p>\n<p>This does not strike me as cost-saving, deficit-busting lelgislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Washington Examiner&nbsp;reported that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released figures showing that health insurance costs will rise if the current healthcare bill is passed.&nbsp; Roughly 43 percent of the American people would be paying more for their health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}