And not only that:
President Obama’s health care overhaul will shrink rather than increase the nation’s huge federal deficits over the next decade, Congress’ nonpartisan budget scorekeepers said Tuesday, supporting Obama’s contention in a major election-year dispute with Republicans.Well, excluding people from health care coverage is a sorry way to reduce the deficit, but even if the governors of the various states had not decided against adopting the extension of Medicaid, the deficit would have been reduced by the Obama plan. Take that, Mitt Romney!
About 3 million fewer uninsured people will gain health coverage because of last month’s Supreme Court ruling granting states more leeway, and that will cut the federal costs by $84 billion, the Congressional Budget Office said in the biggest changes from earlier estimates.
Republicans have insisted that "Obamacare" will actually raise deficits — by "trillions," according to presidential candidate Mitt Romney. But that’s not so, the budget office said.
At the time it was approved in 2010, CBO estimated the law would reduce the deficit by $143 billion from 2010 to 2019. And CBO estimated that last year’s Republican repeal legislation would increase deficits by $210 billion from 2010 to 2021.Mitt won't take that, as his campaign does not operate in the real world, and he will probably continue to say that Obamneycare will increase the deficit, the truth be damned.
I'm waiting for the recalcitrant governors to be questioned by the hospital lobbies. "Governor, why are you refusing ACA money that should be going into our pockets?" Hmmmm? And FYI, we're reconsidering our political contributions..." It could be the same result as was seen in pictures of governors, congressmen, etc. cutting ribbons for the opening of projects paid for with the stimulus money they so publicly claimed they weren't going to take.
ReplyDeleteBex, the legislators in Louisiana are already feeling the pressure from the private hospitals about the governor's plan to cut the Medicaid program, and they are pushing back. I assure you that the resistance to the cuts is not due to calls from poor people.
Delete“I just worry how do we take care of those people if some of these doomsday scenarios happen?” [Sen. Ronnie] Johns responded. “The private hospital sector is absolutely fearful of people showing up on the steps of their emergency room.”
"Those people" who do not have health insurance and use the state hospitals and clinics will show up in the ERs of the private hospitals where they will have no choice but to treat them.
Perhaps the new slogan should be, "Would you buy a used Healthcare Plan from this man...?"
ReplyDeleteMitt Romney: Change We Can't Believe In!
Anagram: Trim T. Money
We just call him Rmoney around these parts.
DeleteI'm not buying anything Mitt has for sale, except Obamneycare. I've seen videos of Mitt dancing around about whether he's pro-choice or pro-life, but all his different positions, I-was-for-it-before-I-was-against-it, seem not to have an effect on the polls.
DeleteRmoney is good, Bex.
Thank you very much for that big article.
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