There was a lot of buzz following the CBO analysis that was released last week that claimed that the latest version of Obamacare, as outlined in the Baucus Bill would be deficit neutral , but this claim naturally had many skeptical. With good reason. To start, the CBO's analyses of the earlier incarnations...
In a March 2009 article about the deficit, The Washington Post 's Lori Montgomery wrote that the Congressional Budget Office's estimates of the ten year budget deficit predicted that Obama's policies "would force the nation to borrow nearly $9.3 trillion over the next decade -- $2.3...
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John Hanlon
on 08-24-2009
Filed under: budget, deficit, John Hanlon, Congressional Budget Office
Last week, I shared my thoughts on why Americans are turning on ObamaCare here on AIP . A reader named Liz commented on my post, asking for information on how the current proposals before Congress would impact her premiums. Like me, Liz has a high deductible insurance linked to a health savings account...
Hey, don't blame me... I didn't believe a word of Obama's campaign rhetoric. It may be childish to say "I told you so," to all those folks who were convinced that Obama would turn deficits in surpluses, war into peace, division into unity, and water into wine... but really, how...