Actually by providing preventive care and standard care, thus keeping uninsured out of the ER for basic health care needs, the HCR reduces health care costs nation wide.
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The overall cost of Health-care reform is estimated at $940 billion, but when compared to savings, the net Deficit reduction in the first ten years is $130 billion, with an estimated $1.2 trillion saved in the second ten.
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So, yes- thank-you democrats.
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not to play all hindsight here, but a whole bunch of us mentioned controlling the costs first, before implementing some cockamamie mandatory health insurance enrichment scheme, so maybe that should have been the first focus.
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I have heard that.. a lot. What I haven't heard is how to reduce those costs.
So what are your ideas?