The Tenth Day of Obamacare
$310,800,000,000 Costs A-Soaring: According to an analysis by the non-partisan Medicare actuary, the health care law will actually raise national health spending by more than $310 billion over its first ten years alone. The fact that the health law will raise and not lower health care costs comes despite an earlier pledge by President Obama that “if any bill arrives from Congress that is not controlling costs, that’s not a bill I can support. It’s going to have to control costs.”
On the tenth day of Obamacare, the government gave to me:
$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”