American Crossroads Attacks Harry Reid For Not Bringing Nevada Enough Stimulus

And it REDUCES the deficit!

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Apparently, it's not going to do that.



Or, to put it another way, if it does do that, we are really going to be scr3wed.



In an article in Health Affairs last month, a former CBO director & a research analyst at a health research firm wrote that estimates that this legislation may actually increase the federal deficit by $500 billion in the first 10 years & by nearly $1.5 trillion in the following decade.



That's because Congress purposely left out of its reform bill a $276 billion provision protecting physicians from scheduled Medicare cuts when it was sent to the CBO for scoring.



Both the analyst and the former CBO director are forecasting that, among other things, Congress will bow to political pressures (from seniors and/or healthcare providers) to forgo other Medicare cuts that are contained in the legislation.



Even the chief actuary of the Medicare system has written that, "providers for whom Medicare constitutes a substantive portion of their business could find it difficult to remain profitable &, absent legislative intervention, might end their participation in the program (possibly jeopardizing access to care for beneficiaries)."



Besides failing to curtail the federal deficit, Obamacare is virtually certain not to "bend the curve" of national healthcare outlays. That’s the main reason insurance premiums will continue to rise.
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