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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
You can't just sell the good parts. The parts with unintended consequences cannot be ignored. Costs are not controlled the bill will not fix the problems in Health Care today.
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In terms of the fiscal consequences, the CBO and the CMS both note that their respective findings are highly speculative. The CBO projects $billions in deficit reductions over 10+ years, the CMS projects $billions in additional costs...IMO, most likely it will be somewhere in between (there is a $500 billion guaranteed revenue source with the surcharge on the top .5% of taxpayers but much of the "savings through efficiencies and fraud reduction" are speculative and would only likely occur in the out years rather than immediately)....or you could cherry pick the cost studies that you like.
In terms of "fixing" the problems, the so-called unintended consequences, for the most part, are driven by ideology (your friend McCaughey) and/or corporate interests (insurance lobby, small business lobby, etc).