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The CBO isn't taking into account that healthcare prices, even medicare, are rising less then expected. If this keeps up, the affordable healtcare act will cost less then expected, not more. The numbers the CBO is projecting are based on rising costs at the previous rate, not the current.
Lol, I have a sense, the CBO knows what it's doing.
Sadly, the black folk I hear talking at work (when they think we can't hear) is:
'whitey gonna get his, he be paying for all my chillin' and now my own doctorin' too cuz I just be payin' any fines they tack on with my refund chilecare credit. oh yeah he gonna pay out the ass now thanks to obama!'
Then the conversation changes to rap or other such crap as the rest of us enter the breakroom.
The look on their faces makes me sick.
Sure they do
This healthcare reform doesn't just help black people by the way. It helps people of all races and ethnic groups.
President Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law.
Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were pushing through the national health care legislation, the most egregious of which was to delay full implementation of the law until 2014, so it would appear cheaper under the CBO's standard ten-year budget window and, at least on paper, meet Obama's pledge that the legislation would cost "around $900 billion over 10 years." When the final CBO score came out before passage, critics noted that the true 10 year cost would be far higher than advertised once projections accounted for full implementation.
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Healthcare costs have been skyrocketing at alarming rates for thirty years. Obamacare or no Obamacare your costs for healthcare would still skyrocket. At least with the reform we won't have people dying of preventable causes because they couldn't get the preventative care they needed because they were uninsured.
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