2015
E-mail from the Congressional Budget Office
New from CBO
Analysis of the Administration’s Announced Delay of Certain Requirements Under the Affordable Care Act
The recently announced one-year delay in the imposition of certain penalties and requirements under the Affordable Care Act will raise the 10-year costs of its health insurance coverage provisions by an estimated $12 billion.
We argue over budgets, deficits, spending and just about everything else and yet with questionable authority a bureaucratic decision based on bureaucratic failure (under admittedly difficult circumstances) spends $12 billion … no problem!


So, $12 B eh?! Do you think anyone will notice given the recent historical and projected future federal budget deficits?
Ending September 30
2008 (Bush) 458B
2009 (Bush 4 months, Obama 8 months) $1,413B
2010 (Obama) $1,293B
2011 (Obama) $1,296
2012 (Obama) $1,089
2013 (Projected as of July 8th) $759B
2014 (CBO Projected – with all the new taxes, sequester, Doc Fix cuts, etc.) $ $616B
2015 $430B
2016 $476B
2017 $535B
2018 $605B
2019 $710B
2020 $798B
2021 $854B
2022 $957B
2023 $978B
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As much as I dislike conspiracy theories, I can’t help but think that delays of penalties, dispensations to certain businesses and groups of the negative impacts of Obamacare are designed to get past the 2014 congressional elections. After that it will be “STAND BY FOR A RAM”
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