Nancy Pelosi on Health Care “Everything’s On The Table” Worry About What’s Not

Seems the reporter had more trouble pinning the soon to be ex-speaker down on a truthful statement on raising taxes to cover health care than wrestling with a greased pig. One might in fact say he did so. In doing the math following final scoring by the CBO on what they had to work with we find a $59 billion dollar increase in the deficit.

Democrats have so thoroughly gamed the budget process and the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring rules that the official cost estimates of the Obama health plan reveal but a sliver of the legislation’s full cost. Other spending provisions bring the cost to $1.2 trillion.

Then there’s the additional $208 billion that Democrats plan to spend on physicians who participate in Medicare. Democrats moved that into a separate bill to reduce the apparent cost of the main health care bill. Including that spending in the estimate completely wipes out the Obama plan’s professed $138 billion of deficit reduction.

Even worse, Democrats hid another $1.5 trillion by preventing the CBO from scoring the legislation’s hidden taxes. At present, when Congress takes money from workers and gives it to private insurers, the CBO counts that as a tax. The Obama plan’s “individual mandate” would force workers to give money directly to private insurers, which the president’s economic advisers admit is also a tax. If history is any guide, those hidden taxes would cost roughly $1.5 trillion – but you won’t find any such estimate in the CBO’s score.

According to the House GOP’s analysis of CBO scores, Obamacare will dole out as much as $10 billion, or about $1 billion per year, to the IRS:, to hire 12,000 more agents. The IRS in our health care? Were the hell is that in the Constitution? How many patients could be treated for $10 billion?

If you’ve been keeping count, we’ve revealed the actual cost of the bill is nearly $3 trillion. But to believe this legislation would cost “only” $3 trillion, we would have to assume that after President Obama signed it into law, it would be rushed to the National Archives and entombed within an impenetrable vault where it would never again be touched by God or man. ( a bit like his sealed files)

In closing, the $208 billion increase in Medicare physician payments is evidence that the patient-provider pincer movement nearly always prevails. In 1997, Congress promised annual cuts in physician payments, but has cancelled those cuts every year since. That $208 billion in new deficit spending is just Congress admitting that those cuts will never take place.

Has there ever been a social program that proposed costs were remotely consistent with actual costs? Think Medicare and Social Security and it’s $107 trillion unfunded liability. This has never been about health care, it’s all about creating a legacy for a crooked politician and a pure power grab of seventeen percent of our economy to further turn the USA into a socialist state. J,C,