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To: Alighieri who wrote (555597)	3/17/2010 11:58:53 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572099

And judging from past experience this particular assumption is a very poor one. It beats the one bush used to score the borrowed drug bill. The drug bill came in under budget. Its possible that it was deliberately overstated, so that it could come in under budget and later be called a success based on that metric, but whether it was deliberate or not, its the only example of a major federal government health care program that costs less than the early estimates. In addition to costing less than the early estimates it is also closer to the original estimates than previous major federal health care programs, and probably closer than the estimates for this one as well. That's a gross oversimplification of what the plan proposes. Note that there are provision in it that continually examine and refine the cost structure and prohibits from rationing, cutting or reducing quality of care. If you don't ration, cut, or reduce quality, and at the same time your expanding coverage you are going to expand costs. There is no free lunch here, and if there was it would have been grabbed years ago.