The House Republican Conference has compiled a list of important numbers relevant to Speaker Pelosi's 1,990-page health care bill. Here are a few:
5.5 million-Number of jobs that could be lost as a result of taxes on businesses that cannot afford to provide health insurance coverage, according to a model developed by Council of Economic Advisors Chair Christina Romer
$729.5 billion-Total new taxes on small businesses, individuals who cannot afford health coverage, and employers who cannot afford to provide coverage that meet federal bureaucrats' standards
$1.055 trillion-New federal spending on expanded health insurance coverage over the next ten years, according to a Congressional Budget Office preliminary score of the bill
.7%-Percentage of all that new spending occurring in the bill's first three years-representing a debt and tax "time bomb" in the program's later years set to explode on future generations
$88,200-Definition of "low-income" family of four for purposes of health insurance subsidies
