This is from the same as I posted before...
"– The Sustainable Growth Rate imposes automatic cuts in Medicare payment rates to doctors.
For several years, fearing a revolt by doctors — and seniors — Congress has suspended those cuts. The original draft of the House health care bill included a permanent “doc fix.” But that ballooned deficits, so Democrats dropped it, even though everyone knows Congress isn’t going to slash doctors’ rates. The C.B.O. has estimated a “doc fix” would cost $247 billion over 10 years.
– Student loans are included
Doctors’ payments are excluded from the health bill, but major student loan program changes are included? Yep. The reconciliation bill will end student loan subsidies to lenders. The C.B.O. says this will save $19.4 billion over the first decade, accounting for virtually all of the $19.8 billion in deficit reduction from the health care reconciliation bill.
Peter Suderman of Reason has another: “The score for the Senate bill includes $72 billion in revenues generated by the CLASS act, a federally-backed disability insurance program. But that $72 billion is just premium revenue that will eventually have to be used to pay out benefits. The score counts that revenue anyway, despite the fact that, according to the C.B.O., it would probably add to the deficit in the long term.”
“As expected, Democrats have maintained the strategy of delaying the major spending provisions until 2014 to create the appearance that the bill is cheaper over the C.B.O.’s ten year budget window, from 2010 through 2019,” adds Philip Klein of the American Spectator. “The bill spends $17 billion in the first four years, while the remaining $923 billion, or 98 percent, is spent in the next six years.
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