Obamacare costs nearly double original projection

from PrairiePundit by Merv:

Obamacare costs nearly double original projection: Phillip Klein:

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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We are beginning to see the true cost of the fraudulent sales job the Democrats used to get this monstrosity passed.  It will become another issue they and Obama will have to explain in this year's election.


Not only the ever growing costs associated with Obamacare, but the attack on religious institutions Obamacare made possible will  keep Democrats on the defensive this coming election.