A $2.6 Trillion Bill…
Sen. Gregg’s staff on the Budget Committee have a chart showing that the full cost of the Senate health (H.R. 3590) and reconciliation (H.R. 4872) bills is more than $2.6 trillion in its first ten years of full implementation (i.e. 2014-2023). This estimate does NOT include the education spending in the reconciliation bill, which totals over $40 billion in its first ten years (i.e. 2010-2019). It also does NOT include a Medicare “doc fix,” which would add at least $200 billion to this total, and quite possibly more…