Thursday, March 15, 2012

Lie, Lies, and more Obama


The Obamissariat



Res Ipsa Loquitur

A funny thing has happened on the way to the implementation of Obamacare, aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA): it’s become much less affordable. When the law was passed in 2010, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated it would cost $940 billion over a ten year period. The new estimate? $1.76 trillion.

But it gets even better. *gasp; gasp;* ... the number of non-elderly legal residents forced to obtain supplemental insurance policies will rise from 82 percent in 2012, to 93 percent in 2022.


None of this surprises those who warned that the original cost estimates of the healthcare bill were little more than Enron-like accounting gimmicks. [Costs for ObamaCare Skyrocket]

ACID TEST - Which of the current crop of GOP hopefuls would you stake your life on—   to go balls-out to repeal Obamacare in its entirety? 



9 comments:

Juice said...

Santorum????
Feel free to point out my error, but Romney causes me to puke a little everyday.

Chuck Martel said...

None.

Where's Sarah Palin?

Kristophr said...

She quit on her presidential bid, Chuck.

She's out.

DonM said...

My General MD just quit his practice because he was planning to retire in two years and he couldn't justify the $35 K that it was going to cost to establish an electronic medical records system.

Last month my Cardiologist quit and turned all of his patients over to other doctors in his medical group.

This is just the beginning of some very bad things to come in the medical care business.

Anonymous said...

They are still ridiculously low-balling the figures. General rule of thumb with the cost of any government program is to take whatever they say it will cost and add a zero. Then you will be at a realistic starting point.
GrinfilledCelt

leelu said...

@GrinfilledCelt,

...double it first.

whitestone said...

On the plus side... when everything goes to hell... there will be one helluva medical underground, black market.
Barter, people, barter!

David said...

How many bricks of 22LR for bypass surgery?

Anonymous said...

No, leelu. There has never been a government program that only cost double what they said it would. 10X is the average. Oh, I see. You meant double it before adding the zero (20X). In most cases that would be a bit much, but not too, much for others. In the case of ObamaCare I think that is probably still too low. Pay for itself, my foot!
GrinfilledCelt

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