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Monday, June 22, 2015

Repealing Obamacare Would Grow Economy

I have asked, and the Congressional Budget Office has answered.

I have been urging the CBO to do a comprehensive estimate of all the effects of the Affordable Care Act, effectively for the first time since 2012. It did so last week. The main take-away is that “repealing the ACA would increase GDP by about 0.7 percent in the 2021–2025 period, mostly because provisions of the law that are expected to reduce the supply of labor would be repealed.”

Read the entire entry at NCPA's Health Policy Blog.

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