I would like him to elaborate on one point. Obama said that repealing health care would add $1 trillion to the deficit. This is a claim he's made in many forms. I would dearly love someone to break that claim down and actually back it up with facts.
Following is the relevant paragraph from the report to the House of Representatives from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). There will, of course, be some who disagree with it and the jury's still out because the law isn't fully in effect.
Estimated Budgetary Impact of the Legislation CBO and JCT estimate that enacting both pieces of legislation—H.R. 3590 and the reconciliation proposal—would produce a net reduction in federal deficits of $143 billion over the 2010–2019 period as result of changes in direct spending and revenues (see Table 1). That figure comprises $124 billion in net reductions deriving from the health care and revenue provisions and $19 billion in net reductions deriving from the education provisions. Approximately $114 billion of the total reduction would be onbudget; other effects related to Social Security revenues and spending as well as spending by the U.S. Postal Service are classified as off-budget. CBO has not completed an estimate of the potential impact of the legislation on discretionary spending, which would be subject to future appropriation
"CBO has not completed an estimate of the potential impact of the legislation on discretionary spending, which would be subject to future appropriation"
You see, if it's set up like MassHealth (RomnyCare), part of the plan was to direct medicaid money through this program, along with child health welfare money, state medical emergency reserves (the money your state taxes pay to hospitals to cover the people that just walk out after an ER visit), along with new income (fines and what not) and funnel it through one program.
Now however we have a House that seems to be interested only in getting numbers down by blindly swinging an ax, and a statement that states will just have to deal with it in any way they seem fit.
The funny thing is that the current medicare voucher program being touted by Republicans could fit nicely into this program, but they are going to trash it before it can take root. With no other real plan to address health care costs.
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