Friday, April 16, 2010

Obamacare "savings"?

Congress is sending President Barack Obama an $18 billion bill to restore unemployment benefits for people who have been out of a job for months and resume full Medicare payments to doctors threatened by a 21% cut.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-04-15-unemployment-benefits_N.htm

Everyone is focusing on the unemployment benefits.

But, the "resumed" medical reimbursements were part of the "savings" from Obamacare, and figured in the computation of the program's projected costs.

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