Obamacare Pricetag: $50,000 Per Person

3
>>Follow Matzav On Whatsapp!<<

obamacareIt will cost the federal government – taxpayers, that is – $50,000 for every person who gets health insurance under the Obamacare law, the Congressional Budget Office revealed on Monday. The number comes from figures buried in a 15-page section of the nonpartisan organization’s new ten-year budget outlook.

The best-case scenario described by the CBO would result in ‘between 24 million and 27 million’ fewer Americans being uninsured in 2025, compared to the year before the Affordable Care Act took effect.

Pulling that off will cost Uncle Sam about $1.35 trillion – or $50,000 per head.

The numbers are daunting: It will take $1.993 trillion, a number that looks like $1,993,000,000,000, to provide insurance subsidies to poor and middle-class Americans, and to pay for a massive expansion of Medicaid and CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) costs.

Offsetting that massive outlay will be $643 billion in new taxes, penalties and fees related to the Obamacare law.

That revenue includes quickly escalating penalties – or ‘taxes,’ as the U.S. Supreme Court described them – on people who resist Washington’s command to buy medical insurance.

It also includes income from a controversial medical device tax, which some Republicans predict will be eliminated in the next two years.

If they’re right, Obamacare’s per-person cost would be even higher.

President Barack Obama pledged to members of Congress in 2009, as his signature insurance overhaul law was being hotly debated, that ‘the plan I’m proposing will cost around $900 billion over 10 years.’

It would be a significant discount if the White House could return to that number today.

Read more: THE DAILY MAIL

{Matzav.com Newscenter}


3 COMMENTS

  1. obama doesnt care. he got his friends in the insurance industry lots of money.
    you have to pass the bill in order to know what it says
    evil isnt the right word
    stupidity isnt the right word
    we need to repeal this idiotic legislation

  2. That $50 k is a 10 year figure.The cost of the health care law is falling, according to the CBO. Between 2015 and 2024, the price tag of Obamacare will be $1.383 trillion, $104 billion lower than prior estimates. This is because of a combination of factors, including a reduction of $165 billion in the gross costs of coverage (the government will spend less on exchange subsidies) and fewer people and businesses paying penalties for either not purchasing coverage or not providing it to their worker Obama care is costing less than projected and bringing down the rate of inflation in health care.

    A more honest and complete story is to be found at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/cbo-obamacare-report_n_5146896.html

Leave a Reply to lkinbc Cancel reply

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here