Orszag: Energy Costs May Rise to Offset Health Care Reforms

I am saddened to see Carl Rove on the ABC Sunday morning program. You normally have a balance of political views; however having Carl Rove is too much for me.

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The energy cost would rise without the health care proposal. Why, it has always risen for no reason, even if it's a storm to bilk the american consumers. I will rise when we change our ways, for that one last "get rich" stance. At least the American people will be able to see a doctor without going bankrupted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Before we got Nothing for paying higher cost for energy.

I have watched This Week with George S. since its inception. . . I will NO longer watch. I welcome the exchange of opposing views , but I will not watch when ABC allows a criminal the platform to air his views . . at least NOT on the Roundtable. Karl Rove neither deserves nor warrants this exposeure. Thankyou for several GOOD years.

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What I want to know is the break down of this tax...how much more per month is it going to cost each home. So many people struggle each month to pay their utilities, I can't imagine what charging more is going to do to them.

For 8 yrs nobody put Rove in his place. When he talks (shouts) over other guests, the least you or George Will can do is put him in his place!
Rove is a disgrace to America and the WSJ as well as ABC News that continue to provide a platform to him should be ashamed.

The Federal government is the reason that healthcare is a mess in the first place. It all started with the creation of Medicare. You can trace the deterioration of the system directly from that. It all started with how the government paid providers for Medicare patients. It was a mess that paid providers for certain expenses & capital items - but yet, still didn't cover the costs of Medicare patients. That in turn created cost shifting to commercial insurance plans. HHS created the prospective payment system (PPS) - (DRG's, base rates, weights, outliers and days stay that they'd pay for). The commercial insurers followed suit & jumped on the HMO bandwagon (even though HMO's had been in existence in California for years). And it has just gotten worse every year since. The sad thing is that the people who are yearning for universal healthcare are probably the people who will be denied care because their cost/benefit ratio will be too high - the chance of a good outcome will be too low for the cost of the treatment. They will be in no better shape than they are now.

I am shocked and saddened to see that Karl Rove is now included in the Round Table. My blood pressure problem will not allow me to watch your program as long as that person is part of the group.It's CBS Sunday Morning for me from now on!

The so called cost reduction to healhcare won't happen because the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid will lead to hospitals doing worse and possibly going out of business or the hospitals will raise prices to offset those losses leading to higher healthcare costs for everyone in the long run; electric cars (when they are available)will also add to the problem because how much it will add to your electric bill as well. We are desperately going to need to come up with a way for neighborhoods to buy wind turbines so that when the turbines are paid off they can have free electricity until the turbines need to be replaced.

How can you guys have Karl Rove on your show? He is a criminal and you putting him on feeds the message that if you get away with crime, you can be a guest on a news show!!!

I liked the Orszag interview. But a caution to Obama & Co. The Library Party of Canada ran on a Carbon Tax last fall, and suffered for it. Even voters in liberal Canada wouldn't go for it and realized that even with other offsets, they'd pay at the pumps and stores. And this was when the Canadian economy was still thought to be booming.

the CO2 cuts will increased out utilities by about 50-60% and then with the Bush tax gone we will pay 15% in taxs just how do you thing the DEM can sell this to the amrican people the old THe check is in the mail and so is the bill which is more then any check we will ever get "YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME BUT NOT ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME" BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE DEM WILL JUST KEEP ON TRYING

So buy allowing companies to bribe us for the right to pollute we are ahem "saving" the enviroment. Huh? I realize Obama needs money for his welfare/warfare programs, but um NOBODY has ANY money!!! All of the companies he would tax have already relocated and/or outsourced their labor forces overseas to increase their profit margin. WHERE IS HE GOING TO GET THE MONEY!?! Oh right, YOU!!! How could I forget. Hey, can you spare some more taxes with unoffical unemployment at 13% and RISING, mind you there is no longer any money for unemployment benefits with the states bankrupt. Oh well, see you all in the Soup Kitchen line! (Oh wait, they can't afford THAT either!)

Here is your tax increase you will be MIDDLE class will be paying for Obama's welfare state. Great. He gives $13 and will take what 100? you think in increased regressive taxes.

hmn. EXACTLY >>>>

Obama worst president in history.

I meant to say Obama most reckless president in history. 1 Trillion on 40 days and taxing the middle class and the upper class and the lower class WOW Arent you all proud? This is insane. More Tea Parties.

MORE TEA PARTIES .>>>>>>
MORE TEA PARTIES.. <<<<<
Obama is out of control.

If we think that health care is expensive now... just wait until it is free....

Orszsag HE DOESNT cap and trade will be a tax on everyone. A totally regressive tax. You think it will cost you more than $13 a week?

If we think that health care is expensive now... just wait until it is free.... >>> What government program runs as cheap as a free enterprise program? You think the 1000 hammer was a joke for NASA. You aint seen nothing yet. OBAMA Failed President with old failed Policies.
cap and trade will be a tax on everyone. and thats OK with Obama. Bet you cant wait for your electric to go up and your gas to go up and your heating to go up when times are tough. The most irresponsible President in History. Obama.

I thought Obama said the carbon tax was to finance the Green energy grid to make the US a green energy marvel. Now his administration is say the carbon tax is so we can have health care? Obama and his administration can't even keep their lies straight, can they? Anyway Americans look at their taxes it's raised taxes on the American taxpayer and anybody who believes Obama when he says he will cut taxes for the lower tax paying Americans is a fool. The taxes paid by the upper 2% of wealthy Americans CANNOT foot the bill for all Obama's spending. Average Americans WILL pay raised taxes one way or the other. I am disgusted by Obama's lies. Two days before he unveils his mind blowingly expensive budget, he hosted a meeting on fiscal responsibility. What a joke. Why are Americans letting this lying slug get away with his lies. This is too sickening to be believed.

The increasingly irrelevant minority has spoken...
But let's see, after 25 years of reaganomics (cut taxes and like magic everything gets better) this nonsense met its reality test. If you want to be relevant come up with solutions for the probelms you created, not more of the same nonsense.
The US has historically benefitted from cheap energy and by postponing the cost of the environmental impact that resulted from its unsustainable use. Yes we need to start paying the real price for the energy we use. Stop whining and let the grown-up run things for a change.

Rising energy is what started all this, sucking money out of Americans pockes. Making inflation take of BIG. Price controls should be put back in place for energy. Exxon aka (OPEC) has boasted of having the largest profits EVER of any conpany in the world. What's wrong with this picture?

"...more efficient health care..." = rationed health care.

The elderly will be shuffled aside because their needed health care dollars will not be efficiently spent.

I wish someone would present both sides of rationed health care as seen in Europe and Canada. People here have this idealized picture of "free" health care, but nothing is free. So many people opt out of their health benefits at work because they would rather spend the $$ on a new car, boat or whatever. I guess this way, people will be forced to pay for health care through higher fuel costs, etc, even if it's rationed out by bureaucrats.

"...more efficient health care..." = rationed health care.

The elderly will be shuffled aside because their needed health care dollars will not be efficiently spent.

I wish someone would present both sides of rationed health care as seen in Europe and Canada. People here have this idealized picture of "free" health care, but nothing is free. So many people opt out of their health benefits at work because they would rather spend the $$ on a new car, boat or whatever. I guess this way, people will be forced to pay for health care through higher fuel costs, etc, even if it's rationed out by bureaucrats.

indjunjoe: hey what's wrong with the present system? You think under our current system "poor people" are just eeking by? I'm a doctor, and besides owing 150,000 in loans for medical school and going for years working in residency at 80-100 hrs per week, I have just now started a family and am making a living after having spent all that time living right above the poverty line (but doing just well thank you). What do I have to show for it? Live across the street for a section 8 jerk who sits home all day, gets peapod delivered, and sell marijuana out of his back yard. All while I am at work and my pregnant wife is at home with a one-year old. But you're right, I feel so sorry for him that he doesn't have more...