The Costs of Dems’ Government Takeover of Healthcare Continue to Soar

March 5, 2012

FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Jason Altmire (PA-12), John Barrow (GA-12), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Lois Capps (CA-24), Ben Chandler (KY-06), David Cicilline (RI-01), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Costa (CA-16), Mark Critz (PA-12), Peter DeFazio (OR-04), John Garamendi (CA-03), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Brian Higgins (NY-27), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Kathy Hochul (NY-26), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steve Israel (NY-02), Bill Keating (MA-09), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Jim Matheson (UT-02), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Jerry McNerney (CA-09), Michael Michaud (ME-02), Bill Owens (NY-23), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), Betty Sutton (OH-16), John Tierney (MA-06), Paul Tonko (NY-21), Niki Tsongas (MA-03), Tim Walz (MN-01), John Yarmuth (KY-03)

The Costs of Costa’s Government Takeover of Healthcare Continue to Soar
The Price Tag Keeps Growing After the California Democrat Voted to Keep the Unsustainable and Deeply Flawed Big-Government Law in Place

WASHINGTON — Although Jim Costa adamantly defends the Democrats’ government takeover of healthcare, costs continue to skyrocket for taxpayers and families under the big-government law. Costa’s Democrat healthcare takeover is proving its constantly growing price tag is unsustainable, and yet healthcare premiums for working families continue to increase as well.

“Jim Costa doesn’t seem to mind that the Democrats’ government takeover of healthcare is giving taxpayers a constantly growing price tag and working families even higher premiums,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “It is increasingly clear every day that the big-government law is unsustainable, and yet Costa and his fellow Washington Democrats refuse to abandon their widely unpopular approach.”

The Obama Administration is asking for another $111 billion in 2012 to fund their government takeover of healthcare:

“Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) is asking about a spike in the estimated costs of subsidies to help people buy private insurance — a central, and expensive, component of the new healthcare law.

“The administration’s budget request this year included $111 billion more for subsidies than its request last year. The difference falls across the same seven-year window.” (Sam Baker, “Republican Probes $111 Billion Jump in Cost of Healthcare Law,” The Hill, 3/2/12)

Exploding costs in their big-government healthcare law are becoming a common trend:

“Medical costs for enrollees in the health-care law’s high-risk insurance pools are expected to more than double initial predictions, the Obama administration said Thursday in a report on the new program.” (Sarah Kliff, “Per Person Cost of Federal High-Risk Medical Plan Doubles,” The Washington Post, 2/24/12)

The rising healthcare costs aren’t just limited to taxpayers, since the Democrat government takeover of healthcare is also contributing to the rising premiums families pay:

“At the moment, the new law is making healthcare slightly less affordable. Independent healthcare experts say the law has caused some insurance premiums to rise. As we wrote in October, the new healthcare law has caused about a 1 to 3 percent increase in health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored family plans because of requirements for increased benefits. Last year’s premium increases cast even more doubt on another promise the president has made–that the healthcare law would ‘lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year.'” (D’Angelo Gore, “Promises, Promises,” FactCheck.org, 1/4/12)

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