The Patriot Post® · ObamaCare: The $2 Trillion (and Counting) BIG Lie


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$2 trillion. That’s what the Congressional Budget Office now says ObamaCare will cost over the next decade. If that figure sounds a bit higher than you remember in the 2009 sweep of Hope ‘n’ Change, that’s because it’s more than double what Democrats told us it would cost. The Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein writes, “When Obama pitched the healthcare law to Congress, he said it would cost ‘around $900 billion’ over 10 years. But his statement was misleading because the way the law was designed, the major spending provisions didn’t kick in until 2014. This meant that 10-year estimates at the time the law was passed in 2010 were artificially low, because they included four years (2010 through 2013) in which spending was negligible.” Democrats told the BIG Lie because they needed the American people to swallow ObamaCare, and keeping it in the “few hundred billion dollar” range was critical to helping the medicine go down. And for all that, 31 million people will remain uninsured 10 years from now. It was never about insurance, though – it was and is about control. More…