I am not going to give the WP the ad revenue for the click...anyone know/have a source as to why there is a $9 trillion obligation to fully repeal Obamacare? Repeal means that everyone added via Medicaid is back off and subsidies for Obamacare are gone. Should be revenue neutral (back to the way is was in 2007).
Sounds like nothing is changing as far as deficit spending is concerned.
There are other provisions of Obamacare that operate to reduce the federal deficit (such as cost containment provisions to help keep Medicare solvent). A repeal, without replace, would increase the deficit by about $350 billion (total) over ten years. Link: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/04/heres-how-gop-repeal-of-obamacare-would-swell-the-federal-deficit.html
The effect of the “replace” part would of course depend on what the replacement was. They could keep some of the deficit-reducers to make repeal revenue-neutral. Alternatively, if they repeal everything else but keep the Medicaid expansion, then the deficit would increase by MORE than $350 billion.
The $9 trillion isn’t solely the effect of repealing Obamacare. It’s the total additional deficit that Republicans in Congress expect to run over the next ten years.