In addition to stealing about $500 billion from Medicare, which is already staggering as it is, here is a brief breakdown of what Obamacare was predicted to cost in 2010 and what it now predicted to cost. Costs will, of course, keep spiraling upward.
Add to that little tidbits like an excise tax on medical equipment (including walkers, pacemakers, wheelchairs, etc.) and I still am a bit puzzled as to how this makes good healthcare affordable.
The best comment I've seen on the stupidity of the economics of this was posted by Moogie yesterday:
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ReplyDeleteMore than $99 TRILLION in unfunded mandates over the next 75 years. Here, kids, this is what we are leaving you.
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