So is this:

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/cpr-administers-bad-facts-again/

The latest ad from the group Conservatives for Patients’ Rights claims that "new rules could hike your health insurance premiums 95 percent." That’s misleading.

The claim in the ad refers to only 5 percent of Americans who have health insurance – those who buy it on their own.

The claim comes from an analysis by a group that advocates for insurance carriers that sell policies in the individual market, among other areas.

That analysis also doesn’t take into consideration several elements of leading congressional legislation that other experts say will keep premium costs down – and in fact, lower premiums for some. Other independent studies show premium costs decreasing on average for Americans that currently have health coverage.

It’s not true that any of the health care overhaul measures that have been approved by committees in Congress would add "a trillion to the federal deficit," as the ad says. The Senate bill would add roughly $597 billion over 10 years, and the House bill that was approved by the Ways and Means Committee in mid-July would add a much smaller $239 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.










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Scare tactics again.

We can do healthcare for all of our citizens and nothing terrible will happen.

The sky will not fall if we have a public option on healthcare.

The sky will not fall. No matter how many times they try to tell us it will.

Well said

Nothing bad would happen for the people, but the big insurance companies would not be partying

They need a serious b!tch slapping...love to watch that

nobody said the sky was falling

I appreciate those that posted sites to back up their side...whether for or against. It's just an article that I thought was interesting

He also said that those weren't his numbers. Those were the numbers of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

You know how rare it is for the Government to come in on budget or under budget on these estimates?Never!Never happends.If anything they go way,way,over budget and stick it to the taxpayer as usual.

When Medicaid was enacted in 1965, Congress predicted it would cost $9 billion by 1990. Actual cost that year? $67 billion, seven times the original estimate.

When the prescription drug plan was added in 2003, the original price tag was $400 billion. The latest estimate? $724 billion on the "low" end, and more than $1.2 trillion on the high end, for the years 2006 through 2015, between double and triple the original estimate

When Medicaid's special hospital subsidy was added in 1987, it was supposed to cost $100 million dollars a year. Five years later it had cost $11 billion, twenty two times the original estimate.

When Medicare's home care benefit was added in 1988 it was projected to cost $4 billion in 1993. Actual cost? $10 billion, two-and-a-half times the original estimate