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CBO: Obamacare Repeal Would Save $1.4 Trillion
2011-02-18
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf writes:

The enacted legislation contained a set of provisions designed to expand health insurance coverage that was estimated to increase federal deficits. The costs of those coverage expansions—which include the cost of the subsidies to be provided through the exchanges, increased outlays for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and tax credits for certain small employers—will be partially offset by revenues from the excise tax on high-premium insurance plans and net savings from other coverage-related effects. By repealing those coverage provisions of PPACA and the Reconciliation Act, over the 2012-2021 period H.R. 2 would yield gross savings of $1,390 billion and net savings (after accounting for the offsets just mentioned) of $1,042 billion.


Sounds like a good way to cut government costs, to me!
Posted by:DarthVader

#1  That is in today's cost of treatment, in today's value dollar.

Take into account future dollar values, the expected dramatic increase of medical costs, times a factor of government imcompetence and we will have to start talking in the tens in ten years.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-02-18 21:27  

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