In the Wall Street Journal, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Joseph Antos And James C. Capretta write:

A close examination of CBO’s work and other evidence undercuts this budget-busting argument about repeal and leads to the exact opposite conclusion, which is that repeal is the logical first step toward restoring fiscal sanity. …

How, then, does the ACA [HR 3590] magically convert $1 trillion in new spending into painless deficit reduction? It’s all about budget gimmicks, deceptive accounting, and implausible assumptions used to create the false impression of fiscal discipline.

Read the whole article: Health Care Repeal Won’t Add to the Deficit. For more details, see the article Holtz-Eakin co-authored published in Health Affairs.

(Via Galen.org.)