Single Payer Health Care - Did the CBO ever score it?

[quantass]

Perhaps i missed it but whatever happened to the Single Payer Health Care CBO score? I thought i heard Weiner discussing this and a few other progressives. I would like to know how it compares.

[freddie mertz]

1. I think that was another promise broken (by Pelosi). nt.

[polichick]

2. Heard last night (msnbc, but don't recall who) that it has not been scored. nt

[Lasher]

3. Well sort of. They did a study in 1993.

I posted it in another thread yesterday but here it is. Seems I recall Pelosi promised the CBO would conduct one this year. Shame on Congressional Democrats, a new one should have been produced early this year.

Edit: Decided to throw in a 2004 article about a Harvard Medical School/Public Citizen study that concluded national health insurance (NHI) could save at least $286 billion annually on paperwork, enough to cover all of the uninsured and to provide full prescription drug coverage for everyone in the United States.

[Nite Owl]

4. It was supposed to be scored

and it never was or the results were too good and now it's secret information lest the corporations revolt.

[JimWis]

5. Been wondering that too. I think the scoring of Single Payer has

been swept under a rug somewhere. Because they all know damn well that it will score well.

[jotsy]

6. Nothing I can find says it has been scored.

Sounds like a good paddle to reach for if their going to push us up shits creek anyway. All that seems to be left in the HCR package is the promise of our wallets to their pockets, one mass shot gun wedding to a widely known abuser, lets all throw rice!?

Shouldn't there be a push to at least get HR 676 scored before they close this slave trade of a deal?

[truedelphi]

7. there is simply no way to determine the cost or cost effectiveness of any of these programs

The Robber Barons have been setting the prices.

So when Obama came out with a very strong statement on HCR beginning of the summer that used the term "deficit neutral" I thought to myself, "Well good. He gets it. We need to examine all the costs related to health care and determine what the true prices should be, not the inflated prices the Big Medical, Big Pharma and Big Insurers have gotten away with, but the true prices. That way maybe they will figure out that Single Payer Universal HC is affrodable -- once the inflated prices are put back in line."

Instead that investigation never happened. So even those HCR programs that did supposedly get evaluated got evaluated according to the inflated price standards of the Big Medical Industries.

"Cost containment" became a term that means that you and I and everyone else are greedy little consumers who plan to use the system too much. Not that the Big Medical Industries have inflated things all out of proportion.