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Oops. New CBO Estimate: Obamacare Will Be TRIPLE Initial Estimate

7/12/12

Obama lied. Taxpayers pay!

There is a reason why Obama didn't want to implement Obamacare until 2014.

1. He didn't want people to realize how bad it was until AFTER he was re-elected (though he probably won't be).
2. The CBO forecasts the cost of this proposal over a ten year period. By kicking the can down the road, a few years were shaved off the estimate.

From the Weekly Standard, Senate Budget Committee Republican staff:

"President Obama promised a joint session of Congress in 2009 to spend $900 billion over ten years on his health care law: 'Now, add it all up, and the plan that I’m proposing will cost around $900 billion over 10 years.' Adding up all the different spending provisions in the health care law, however, (including closing the Medicare 'donut hole,' implementation costs, and other spending) total gross spending over the FY 2010–19 period is about $1.4 trillion, based on CBO estimates,"

"And most of the major spending provisions in the law do not even take effect until 2014. Congressional Democrats delayed these provisions in order to show only six years of spending under the plan in the original 10-year budget window (from FY2010-19) used by CBO at the time the law was enacted. Therefore, the original estimate concealed the fact that most of the law’s spending only doesn’t even begin until four years into the 10-year window. A Senate Budget Committee analysis (based on CBO estimates and growth rates) finds that that total spending under the law will amount to at least $2.6 trillion over a true 10-year period (from FY2014–23)—not $900 billion, as President Obama originally promised."