CBO Projections: Senate Health-Care Bill’s Costs
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True first-10-year costs: $1.8 Trillion
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Costs in Billions ($)
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What the Democrats call the “first 10 years” (2010-2019) Percentage of “10 year” costs that hit in the first 4 years: 1%
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The true first 10 years (2014-2023)
All numbers from the CBO. Chart produced by Jeffrey H. Anderson, Senior Fellow, Pacific Research Institute; for further analysis, see New York Post, Nov. 20, 2009 http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/another_set_of_cooked_bo oks_loFmlm5OEIdYuzuJySXBaN