In an article
for the New York Times, author Robert Pear dissected the Congressional Budget
Office’s revised estimates on the effects of the Affordable Care Act after the
landmark Supreme Court decision to uphold the law. A key portion of the decision alters the legislation to permit
States to opt out of the proposed Medicaid expansion. The CBO predicts that an additional 3 million people will
now go without health insurance due to this new aspect of the law, but the
agency also expects the federal government should save approximately $84
billion over the next 11 years. The
Affordable Care Act is still projected to provide coverage to 30 million of the
60 million presently uninsured Americans at a price tag of $1.7 trillion over
the course of 11 years. The bulk
of the cost emerges after 2014, when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act
will take effect.
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