Republicans reject report on cost of health care repeal...forget reality

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Rescinding the federal law to overhaul the health-care system, the first objective of House Republicans who ascended to power this week, would ratchet up the federal deficit by about $230 billion over the next decade and leave 32 million more Americans uninsured, according to congressional budget analysts.

The rough estimate by the Congressional Budget Office also predicts that most Americans would pay more for private health insurance if the law were repealed. The 10-page forecast was delivered to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), installed a day earlier to shepherd the new GOP majority. He immediately dismissed it.

The CBO's assessment, arriving as Republicans have mobilized to make the law's repeal the first major House vote of the new Congress, touches on a sensitive area for the GOP. Republicans are vowing to take tough measures to reduce the deficit, although they already have exempted the health-care measure from rules requiring that any spending increases be accompanied by offsetting reductions so that the net effect on the deficit is null.

The CBO's analysis provided an early glimpse of the brute force politics spreading across Capitol Hill and beyond in the new era of divided government. The broad changes to the health-care system, pushed through Congress by Democrats who controlled both the House and the Senate until this week, are among President Obama's proudest domestic accomplishments - and now a central target of the GOP. On Thursday, congressional Democrats and their allies seized the budget analysts' prediction as ammunition. "It's plain and simple: We can't afford to increase the deficit by nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars, especially with the very first substantive vote of the 112th Congress," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Montana).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010606159_pf.html

[Ozymanithrax]

1. This is politics, not reality. n/t

[EFerrari]

2. So much for fiscal conservatism. Delusional, oppositional @ssholes. n/t

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Admit it

You never honestly believed that they would follow through with anything. The teabaggers will realize that they've been had..............some day.......maybe.

[EFerrari]

8. The tea klanners are also delusional oppositional @ssholes.

I wish I had bridges for sale, I could make a mint on them. :)

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Maybe we should be like taking advantage of them or something

Republicans can do it. Why not us? Oh yeah, we have a conscience.

[EFerrari]

10. All those seniors with their tea bag hats and lawn chairs.

They're supporting people who want to cut back their social security checks and their Medicare coverage. It's unreal.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. It is indeed.

:crazy:

[krispos42]

3. Beaker says it best...

(orange hair in honor of "Carmalized Orange" Boehner

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. ..............

:rofl:

[RKP5637]

6. I live in the Twilight Zone = It's called the "NEW" USA. n/t

[RedCloud]

7. Absolutely we need to keep a log of the thousands of stupid things they say in the next two years

[applegrove]

12. Go Dems. Every time the GOP mentions HCR, promote it and how great it is financially.