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  • CBO: Obamacare to cost $1.76 trillion over 10 yrs

    03/13/2012 3:00:10 PM PDT · by GlockThe Vote · 23 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 3/12/2012 | Philip Klein
    President Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law. Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were pushing through the national health care legislation, the most egregious of which was to delay full implementation of the law until 2014, so it would appear cheaper under the CBO's standard ten-year budget window and, at least on paper, meet Obama's pledge that the legislation would cost "around $900 billion over 10 years." When the...
  • CBO: Obamacare to cost $1.76 trillion over 10 yrs

    03/13/2012 2:20:05 PM PDT · by ColdOne · 21 replies
    washingtonexaminer ^ | 3/13/12 | Philip Klein
    Today, the CBO released new projections from 2013 extending through 2022, and the results are as critics expected: the ten-year cost of the law's core provisions to expand health insurance coverage has now ballooned to $1.76 trillion. That's because we now have estimates for Obamacare's first nine years of full implementation, rather than the mere six when it was signed into law. Only next year will we get a true ten-year cost estimate, if the law isn't overturned by the Supreme Court or repealed by then. Given that in 2022, the last year available, the gross cost of the coverage...