Dawg.. I read your first link written by a young pundit.. all gloom and doom..
So I will post links as well, read it or not..
This Week in Poverty: What ‘Defunding Obamacare’ Really Means
When the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was in question, independent Senator Bernie Sanders was no easy “yea” vote.
The single-payer, Medicare-for-All type of system that he
favored was never on the table, and the final bill didn’t include a public option. He also felt the legislative process had catered too much to the interests of the healthcare industry, which had spent over
$1.4 million per day lobbying to get the bill it wanted.
But Sanders knew Democrats desperately needed his vote. He used that leverage in a successful fight to increase funding for
community health centers—comprehensive clinics in medically underserved areas that provide doctors, dentists, mental health counselors and prescription drugs on a sliding-scale fee so that nobody is turned away.
In the end, Sanders helped to pass the ACA—legislation that Republicans are now so desperate to repeal that they have
shut down the government and put the full faith and credit of the US in jeopardy. Yesterday on Capitol Hill, Sanders held a forum to spell out exactly what the consequences would be if Republicans were to have their way and the ACA were nixed.
He noted that “we are [still] the only country in the industrialized world that doesn’t guarantee healthcare to people as a right.” As a result, there are
48 million Americans without health insurance. Under the ACA, 20 million currently uninsured people will finally receive coverage (more if GOP governors
get out of the way) and thousands of lives will be saved every year as these individuals no longer delay or forgo healthcare.
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Steve Benen
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Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:30 AM EDT
CBO: Obamacare still cuts deficit
One of the more common complaints from critics of the Affordable Care Act is that it's too expensive. In particular, congressional Republicans, who occasionally pretend to care about the deficit and debt, argue that the health care reform law is fiscally irresponsible.
The argument has never made any sense -- every independent budget analysis has shown that "Obamacare" is not only fully paid for, it also
reduces the deficit.
Of course, that was before the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. What does the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office have to say about the ACA now? As it turns out, the law
still reduces the deficit, and Republican repeal efforts would worsen U.S. finances.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/07/25/12947096-cbo-obamacare-still-cuts-deficit
