Comments on: Actual cost of Pelosi bill: $1,200,000,000,000

By: Pelosi Admits: Don’t Have the Votes to Pass Govt Health Care

Pelosi Admits: Don’t Have the Votes to Pass Govt Health Care — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:47:40 +0000

[...] Actual cost of Pelosi bill: $1,200,000,000,000 (hotair.com) [...]

By: Hard Starboard

Hard Starboard — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:50:42 +0000

Health Wars (11/3/09)…

Granny Rictus McBotox claimed her version of BarryCare would “only” cost $894 billion. Guess who’s blowing the whistle on that whopper? Would you believe…the Assholiated Press?: The health care bill headed for a vote in the House this …

By: Mere Rhetoric

Mere Rhetoric — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:17:25 +0000

WH: GOP Wins Proves People Want Cost-Cutting Nationalized Health Care…

Buried on the second page of Politico’s “don’t believe the post-election conservative hype” article, this is going to have Mickey Kaus positively tickled. Couple it with how death panels got reinserted into House legislation, and everything old re…

By: Health Care Nuttiness. « Truth, Lies and In Between

Health Care Nuttiness. « Truth, Lies and In Between — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:03:19 +0000

[...] Actual cost of Pelosi bill: $1,200,000,000,000 By Ed Morrissey Nancy Pelosi rolled out her 1,990 page bill to overhaul the American health-care system like a Hummer on the showroom floor (and almost as heavy). Like any good car salesman, Pelosi told the press her version of the low low price! for her new model, getting a credulous press to report that the monstrosity would only cost $894 billion — and the media dutifully reported that number, as well as Pelosi’s contention that it would not bust the deficit, without any of their (Bush-era) skepticism. Last night, though, the AP discovered that Pelosi left a lot of things out of that final price, and experienced their own kind of sticker shock: [...]

By: Not $1.2 Trillion…$1.5 Trillion

Not $1.2 Trillion…$1.5 Trillion — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:24:18 +0000

[...] Yesterday the AP did their own math on Pelosi’s bill, which she trumpeted as costing a mere $894 billion, and their intrepid reporters came up with the figure of $1.2 trillion. Pelosi didn’t lie. She used leftard Keynesian math. (H/T: Ed Morrissey.) [...]

By: What Things Cost » Cold Fury

What Things Cost » Cold Fury — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:17:54 +0000

[...] $1.2 Trillion. [...]

By: conservativecaveman

conservativecaveman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:03:31 +0000

You think that no one, much less a body of Congress, can be as blatantly destructive and stupid as the Pelosi crowd. The reality is difficult for me to digest.

orlandocajun on November 3, 2009 at 10:04 AM

If they aren’t stupid then they are evil. Doing the harm intentionally in order to justify even more radical change down the road. In many instances though I believe them to be simply stupid. Pelosi hasn’t the wit to write 1900+ pages of ANYTHING. She is just a tool. And Grayson is just plain crazy.

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:35:25 +0000

The photo of Pelosi is her explaining how many zero’s there are in that number.

By: 3 Billion Reasons to Distrust House Health Care Reform Bill | Conservative Patriot HQ

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:45:36 +0000

[...] trillion, that is 1,000,000,000,000 to you and me. Several Democrat officials indicated that the total cost of the bill would be just over $1.2 trillion or $300 billion more than Pelosi’s [...]

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:59:40 +0000

Apparently Pelosi is also working on an 800-page attachment to the 1999 pages, to benefit bureaucrats – on Ingraham show today.

By: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Updating… 5:17 AM «

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Updating… 5:17 AM « — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:52:02 +0000

[...] Actual cost of Pelosi bill: $1,200,000,000,000 [...]

By: burt

burt — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:35:07 +0000

How long ago was it when DearLeader was saying the cost would be zero because it would come out of saving? That is a zero in the first didgit rather than a one in the tenth digit.

By: onlineanalyst

onlineanalyst — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:58:58 +0000

I will never forget seeing a pathetic old beggar woman on the streets of Budapest about ten years ago, the victim of the collapse of the Soviet “utopia.” Too many citizens of her age were victims of the State during their productive years and ended up even more impoverished afterward. Socialism/communism/fascism treat people like throwaway pawns.

By: Brat

Brat — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:51:30 +0000

Lot’s of zeroes so appropriate for Zerobama.

By: iamse7en

iamse7en — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:50:28 +0000

Don't forget the medicare "doc fix" - Heritage has the total at 1.5 trillion.

By: onlineanalyst

onlineanalyst — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:41:23 +0000

Do 111 “demonstration projects” belong in a bill that purports to reform an industry in order to save money?

These 111 “demonstration projects” are part of the government-growth jobs that Obamao has “created.”

Massachusetts, Maine, Tennessee, and Hawaii provide enough “demonstration projects” to demonstrate that government take over of health insurance is too costly and too unwieldy.

By: JusDreamin

JusDreamin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:06:18 +0000

Let’s not forget that even after this “reform” is paid for (by us, or our kids, or their kids-actually all of the above) your cost of health insurance will skyrocket. One estimate is TRIPLE the cost in a single year, depending on the plan.

doomed if this POS gets anywhere near law…

By: teke184

teke184 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:18:48 +0000

Anyone else look at that picture of her face and immediately think the cost was… *zoom-in* “One MILLION dollars!”?

By: A Small Corner of Sanity - An Online Oasis for Conservative Thought

A Small Corner of Sanity - An Online Oasis for Conservative Thought — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:12:07 +0000

Thou Shall: 3,345 Times – GOP Claims That PelosiCare Bill Creates 111 New Bureaucracies…

Halloween may be over, but the Health Care Zombie has only just started clawing at his grave. And his stench is only becoming more noisome as the days goes by.

As the Pelosi “deadline” for the House vote on her bloated, $1.2 trillion health care …

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:06:34 +0000

I’m glad to see the use of zeros to make points about $1,000,000,000,000s (trillions of dollars) in greed and waste is catching on. I regret our use of decimal numbering, however, because the 10-fold increase in scale with every digit scarcely gives one a feeling of the difference between a trillion dollars and a mere few thousand dollars. So here is $1.2 trillion dollars, expressed in binary.

$1,00010111,01100101,10010010,11100000,00000000

For comparison, here is the median income of a family of four in the United States, as of 2005, also expressed in binary.

$1,00000101,11001011

Perhaps now you will more nearly feel the extent to which your finances are dwarfed by the scale of the American leftists’ acquisitiveness.

By: txag92

txag92 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:06:18 +0000

Does the price include the cost of all of the new bureaucracies? You know there will be thousands of people hired (to inflate the jobs created or saved number).

By: Health Care Math, plus Tales From the Bay State « Astroturf Superstar

Health Care Math, plus Tales From the Bay State « Astroturf Superstar — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:06:01 +0000

[...] the deficit both in the first 10 years and in the second 10 years.” How this monster, with its myriad of new bureaucracies, will save money is anybody’s [...]

By: AnninCA

AnninCA — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:02:42 +0000

I just think the plan is old thinking. It’s one-size fits all kind of program.

The reality is that people who are worthy of help cannot figure out how to get it, as it is.

It’s just busywork.

People are sick of this.

By: theaddora

theaddora — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:59:48 +0000

Michael Savage said liberalism is a mental disorder, and he was so right. If Nancy Pelosi believed in God, she would know that God loves all his creatures, and she only loves herself and her God, Obama.

By: GarandFan

GarandFan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:49:33 +0000

Essentially, Pelosi lied about the cost.

I’m SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell you!