The fight revolves around how to define "affordable" under provisions of the law that are ambiguous.
If low-income families find insurance unaffordable under these plans, they'll find it even less affordable under the Obama plan.
But sometimes they can be a bit more affordable, under $70, as is the case with Burgess.
They also say the deal means that only 20percentt of the 970 apartments involved in the deal will remain affordable under state guidelines.
The Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association is pursuing a plan that would allow some tenants to buy their apartments, while ensuring that thousands of other units stay affordable under the state's rent rules.
I sent out an e-mail to 20 of them saying, 'If you're getting too annoyed with this, it's pretty affordable, under $7,000 for a 14-kilowatt Generac fueled by propane.' Seven took us up on it".
They said that Mr. Bush's plans could be paid for even within the budget forecasts the campaign has been using for the last month, and that there was no question they would be affordable under the coming projections.
We need to ensure that these properties are affordable under the new benefit limits and so we are looking for more affordable options than simply renting from private landlords, which has become unaffordable.
Towns with fewer than 10percentt of their housing stock deemed affordable under complex state guidelines can be forced by the courts to approve the developments, even after the applications are denied by local zoning boards and town councils.
The Congressional Budget Office provided the first independent estimates today of the cost of new Medicare drug benefits, showing that the proposals of Senate Democrats and House Republicans are both affordable under the budget adopted by Congress earlier this year.
Indeed, as House Republicans began hearings last week to debate alternatives, neither Mr. Bush nor his critics fully addressed how they would pay for benefits that, according to the Social Security trustees, will probably not be affordable under the current system.
