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New CBO report hides less of ObamaCare’s true costs
The latest CBO report on ObamaCare’s costs is less misleading, as covers more years that include both tax revenue & spending, rather than just revenue. The result more clearly shows how it fleeces taxpayers. Continue reading
ObamaCare Repeal Won’t Add to the Deficit
How, then, does the ObamaCare health control law magically convert $1 trillion in new spending into painless deficit reduction? It’s all about budget gimmicks, deceptive accounting, and implausible assumptions used to create the false impression of fiscal discipline. Continue reading
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Health care “reform” barely reduces government deficit
Proponents of the health control legislation, HR 3590, claimed it would reduce the federal deficit. First of all, this desirable if government cuts spending. In any case, Veronique de Rugy at the Mercatus Center shows that the health care bill’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Congressional Budget Office, federal deficit, government spending, HR 3590, ObamaCare
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Soaring ObamaCare costs break the bank
Key points about HR 3590 from Grace-Marie Turner in Soaring ObamaCare costs break the bank: “The Congressional Budget Office recently issued a revised estimate showing the law will cost $115 billion more than it projected the week before it was … Continue reading
Why health care bill won’t reduce the deficit
From Reason.tv: One of the main selling points of health care reform [HR 3590] was that it would cut the federal deficit by a supposed $143 billion over the next decade and a trillion-plus dollars in the one after that. … Continue reading
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Congressional Budget Office hides costs of health care bill
By not accounting for the cost to taxpayers of mandatory insurance, the Congressional Budget Office is hiding the true cost of the Senate health care “reform” bill. Michael Cannon at Cato writes that: CBO’s score of the Clinton health plan … Continue reading
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Tagged Congressional Budget Office, HR 3590, mandatory insurance, politician credibility, taxes
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Baucus health care bill: would it cut federal deficit?
Cato Institute scholars claim the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis is skewed: Writes Michael Cannon: Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-MT) health care overhaul would cost more than $2 trillion. It would expand the deficit. But he has carefully and methodically hidden those … Continue reading