This must have caused apoplexy amongst the Florida wingnuts
A Tampa Bay Times Editorial
Numbers on health act debunk GOP claims
One of the chief Republican objections to health care reform is that it will add too much to the deficit and the nation can't afford it. The problem with this claim is that it's wrong. The Congressional Budget Office has consistently maintained that the Affordable Care Act reduces the deficit by tens of billions of dollars even as it extends health coverage to millions of Americans. Those who are calling for its repeal on the grounds of fiscal responsibility need to explain how they would do better.
The latest CBO estimate says the health care law will reduce the federal deficit by $109 billion over the next 10 years. The budget office factored in changes as a result of the recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the law but giving states flexibility to opt out of its Medicaid expansion provisions. The CBO estimates there will be 6 million fewer people insured under Medicaid, with half of those obtaining insurance on the new state exchanges, leading to a net reduction in cost to the federal government of $84 billion.
It also noted that it will cost the federal government about a third more per person to subsidize low-income people on the state exchanges than to provide them Medicaid coverage. But since fewer will be covered, there will be savings.
Republican leaders, such as House Republican Policy Committee chairman Tom Price of Georgia, say the law is unaffordable by noting that it requires public outlays of $1.7 trillion — a number from the CBO analysis. But he and others conveniently disregard the other side of the ledger where the law balances expenditures through cost controls, new taxes, penalties and fees. As the CBO has repeatedly found, overall there is a net savings to taxpayers. The Affordable Care Act is a deficit-reduction measure.
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http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/numbers-on-health-act-debunk-gop-claims/1244046
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You assume right wingers are honest folks interested in facts..Your first mistake.
. Dont you remember Jim DeMint of SC saying they wanted to make health care Obamas Waterloo? And Mitch McConnell saying their first priority was to insure that black man in the White House did not get a second term? And Boss Limbaugh saying he wanted Obama to fail?
You really think facts like these are going to mean anything to these clowns?? Opps!! I mean these "folks"?
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1...that the Republicans can read
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2...that they can understand what they've just read.
