ObamaCare Repeal Won’t Add to the Deficit

How, then, does the ObamaCare health control law 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.

Health care “reform” barely reduces government deficit

Proponents of the health control legislation, HR 3590, claimed it would reduce the federal deficit.  First of all, this desirable if government cuts spending.  In any case, Veronique de Rugy at the Mercatus Center shows that the health care bill’s deficit reduction is tiny:

The above chart by Mercatus Center senior research fellow, Veronique de Rugy […]