The Twelfth Day of Obamacare
$2.6 trillion spending: According to the Republican staff of the Senate Budget Committee, the health care law and reconciliation measures include $2.6 trillion in new federal spending in their first ten years of full implementation (i.e. 2014-2023). That number does NOT include up to an additional $115 billion in discretionary spending associated with the law, as calculated by the Congressional Budget Office. It also does NOT include the cost of a Medicare “doc fix,” which would add at least $200 billion to this total, and quite possibly more.
So, on the twelfth day of Obamacare, the government gave to me:
$2.6 Trillion spending
$2,100 Premiums raising
$310,800,000,000 Costs a-soaring
35,000,000 Coverage dropping
222 Rules a-waiving
40,000,000 Forms a-filling
7,400,000 MA benes losing
0 Oversight hearings
159 Boards and programs
16,500 IRS agents
21 Federal lawsuits
And a health insurance mandate “fee”