The $1,000,000,000,000.00 Dollar Quack

Gee, I sure am glad Our Dark Overlord told us that health care deform will cost absolutely nothing…  Which is somewhat true, if you think about it;   After all, who is going to be stupid enough to pay their Federal taxes after the U.S. Government collapses?

House health care bill over $1 trillion for decade
Oct 23, 2009 – By DAVID ESPO – via My Way News

WASHINGTON (AP) – Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month.

Democrats have touted an unreleased Congressional Budget Office estimate of $871 billion in recent days, a total that numerous officials acknowledge understates the bill’s true cost by $150 billion or more. That figure excludes several items designed to improve benefits for Medicare and Medicaid recipients and providers, as well as public health programs and more, they added.

The officials who disclosed the details did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss them publicly.

Some moderate Democrats have expressed reluctance to support a bill as high as $1 trillion. Last month, Obama said in a nationally televised address before a joint session of Congress that he preferred a package with a price tag of around $900 billion.

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