Repealing health care reform will cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, just like tax reform cost over a trillion, just like building nuclear power plants costs…you get the idea.
Here’s the latest deficit enhancer introduced by the Republicans, who by the way, simply don’t believe the numbers anymore. How easy was that voters?
National Journal: A GOP-led rollback of President Obama's health care law would add $230 billion to the national deficit over a 10-year window and leave about 54 million Americans without insurance, according to a preliminary estimate issued this morning by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The CBO says that … pushing the budget window out to 2021, the deficit would swell even more, running up a $230 billion deficit.
Further, the congressional scorekeepers said that repealing the new law would lower health insurance premiums in the individual market, but only because average plans would shift more costs to the consumer and narrow the benefits available. Premiums in employer-sponsored coverage, the CBO estimates, would increase slightly.
But for Republicans, forget the numbers; it has everything to do with what you “believe.”
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel responded "There is no one that believes the Washington Democrats' job-killing healthcare law will lower costs, because it won't.
I still can’t get over the GOP’s over the top bill naming strategy that pretty much fuels the propaganda; “The Job-killing healthcare law Act.” A low information voter ploy if there ever was one.
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