Summary
Among the claims in the health care bill rushed through the Senate just before Christmas, the most fanciful is that the legislation will reduce the deficit by $132 billion over 10 years. Anyone who believes this may also be interested in a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
Start with $186 billion of savings from cuts in Medicare payments to physicians. No one in Congress expects these cuts to actually happen because if they did, the 12 percent of doctors who refuse to accept new Medicare patients would increase sharply. But in the meantime the cuts are a convenient fiction to lower the bill's cost.See the full content of this document
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Bad Bill Not Worth It
Then there is $76 billion of savings over 10...
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