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Thanks again to George Bush, the entire Bush family, and the remaining Bush parasites like Ed Rollins and Karl Rove. Destroying this country wasn't enough for them. Now they're doing their best to re-elect Obama.
9/19/12, "CBO raises estimate of those hit by Obama health care tax," Washington Times, Cunningham
"Congress‘
official scorekeeper said Wednesday that 30 million people will be
uninsured when President Obama’s health care law goes fully into effect,
including six million Americans who are expected to pay a tax penalty —
about two million more than originally forecast when the law was passed
in 2010.
After initially predicting that the law would leave just 21 million lacking health insurance, the Congressional Budget Office has raised its estimate, blaming the slow economy, changes Congress has made to the law and states who said they’ll refuse to expand their Medicaid programs after the Supreme Court said they don’t have to.
The
upside for the government is that it will collect more revenue to help
pay for the health care law. With two million more Americans expected to
pay the penalty, the CBO predicted $3 billion more in collections each year — about $7 billion in 2016, and $8 billion a year thereafter.
But
the new projections could also undermine a key goal of President Obama
in the new health care law, which aimed to extend coverage to most
Americans.
And it gave Republicans an opportunity to recite one of their favorite
criticisms of the law — that President Obama is taxing middle-class
Americans by penalizing them for failing to buy coverage."...via Lucianne
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