Posted on 07/19/2010 8:14:35 AM PDT by MichCapCon
The federal health care law will still leave about 21 million Americans uninsured by 2019, will cost more than $2.7 trillion and add $352 billion to the national debt over 10 years of full implementation, says an expert at a public policy think tank.
Michael Tanner, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute, makes these claims in his book, "Bad Medicine: A Guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health Care Law." It went on sale Monday.
"It is a pretty significant failure," Tanner said of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Many of Tanner's findings come from the Congressional Budget Office, which does budgetary analysis for Congress.
Tanner's figure of $2.7 trillion includes $105 billion of costs to implement the health care act that weren't included in the bill. That includes such things as hiring new IRS agents...
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REPEAL IT NOW!!!!
Facts don’t matter to the liberals. So these facts about the high costs of Obamacare will never make it into the MSM or liberal thought processes. To be a good liberal, you dream about the world as you want it to be, and ignore any evidence to the contrary. And if the blank hits the fan by 2019, a Republican may be president then, and then he/she can take the blame for any problems.
If they really wanted a ‘good’ fix to the problems in the health care system they would have put together a panel of practicing physicians (with a very limited number of academic docs) to come up with a plan.
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