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Obamacare is costing way less than expected
VOX ^ | 2/2/15 | Ezra Klein

Posted on 02/02/2015 4:15:07 PM PST by goodnesswins

In January 2010, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the federal health spending would total a bit more than $11 trillion between 2011 and 2020.

Today, the Congressional Budget Office thinks it made a mistake. Costs are coming in lower-than-expected, and the CBO's newest projections suggest the federal government will spend $600 billion less on health care than they predicted back in 2010.

So far, so good: projections are always wrong by at least a bit, and it's nice to have the extra $600 billion in America's pocket.

But here's the incredible thing: as Paul Van de Water, a health care expert at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, points out, the January 2010 projection didn't include any of the spending associated with Obamacare. The latest projections include all of the spending associated with Obamacare.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: jokes; lies; obamacare; propaganda
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My sides are splitting...
1 posted on 02/02/2015 4:15:07 PM PST by goodnesswins
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Gosh, then I must be imagining the $10,000 more per year my policy costs me.

I am gonna bust.

2 posted on 02/02/2015 4:16:40 PM PST by skeeter
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To: goodnesswins

3 posted on 02/02/2015 4:16:55 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: goodnesswins

Forget it Jake. Its VOX.


4 posted on 02/02/2015 4:17:04 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: goodnesswins

gee ya know if theyd made the intial projection....er prediction a few hundred billion higher just THINK of the dough that we the people would now be Rolling In...


5 posted on 02/02/2015 4:17:05 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Ezra Klein needs to have some cruel things happen to him. Won’t get specific, but cruel.


6 posted on 02/02/2015 4:19:25 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: goodnesswins

VOX? Is that another word for Pravda?


7 posted on 02/02/2015 4:19:52 PM PST by JimSEA
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8 posted on 02/02/2015 4:20:23 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: skeeter
Gosh, then I must be imagining the $10,000 more per year my policy costs me.

It's the Federal Govt. that is going to have to pay less, not you. -Tom

9 posted on 02/02/2015 4:22:04 PM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Im certain that the suffering wrought on such a mentality by a remedial education would be intolerable


10 posted on 02/02/2015 4:22:10 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: goodnesswins

Only because mo one signed up for it.


11 posted on 02/02/2015 4:23:47 PM PST by mylife
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To: goodnesswins

Yeah, and the unemployment rate is 6%, a dollar of federal spending (ie, taxation) has a “multiplier effect,” Medicare and Social Security all,stayed within their initial budgetary predictions, and the gibsmedats have quit sucking the government teat.

Did you see that incredible rainbow this morning?


12 posted on 02/02/2015 4:23:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.)
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Somebody been hittin’ da happy smoke!


13 posted on 02/02/2015 4:24:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Look! Snowflakes! We're all gonna die!)
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To: skeeter

This is a clever new way of taxing you


14 posted on 02/02/2015 4:24:49 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: goodnesswins

Ezra saw his shadow this morning. Now he needs to crawl back into his hole.


15 posted on 02/02/2015 4:26:17 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Look! Snowflakes! We're all gonna die!)
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To: goodnesswins

of course, most of Obamacare actually wasn’t yet


16 posted on 02/02/2015 4:26:53 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: goodnesswins

Costs less to the government but a whole bunch of people are paying triple to subsidize the users of society.


17 posted on 02/02/2015 4:31:16 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: goodnesswins

People that actually have to pay for their insurance have deductibles so high they cannot afford to go to the doctor. What are the insurance companies doing with all the taxable profit from the uncompensated premium money?


18 posted on 02/02/2015 4:31:37 PM PST by clearcarbon
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they are paying overhead


19 posted on 02/02/2015 4:32:27 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
LIL EZRA ..is surely the life of every party...


20 posted on 02/02/2015 4:35:48 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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