The headline of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) damning assessment of the fiscal damage done by H.R. 2 — the so-called Medicare doc fix negotiated secretly by House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — is that the deal will add $141 billion to the deficit over the next ten years.
Even this appalling outcome is sugarcoated. After unpacking the gimmicks underlying the estimate, the actual result is much worse.
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Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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