Actual Cost of the Senate Health Bill: $1.6 Trillion, Not $848 Billion

This is from Joe Antos (AEI):

• The total amount of new federal health spending in the bill in addition to the cost of expanding health insurance coverage is $1.2 trillion.
• The CBO estimate assumes that Congress will cut Medicare payments to physicians by $245 billion over the next decade — cuts that will never happen.
• The bill includes at least an additional $150 billion cut in payments to Medicare and Medicaid providers that will never occur.

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