Feign Surprise: CBO Ups the Cost of Obamacare

Gee…who could have ever predicted this:

Congressional Budget Office estimates released Tuesday predict the health care overhaul will likely cost about $115 billion more in discretionary spending over ten years than the original cost projections.

The additional spending — if approved over the years by Congress — would bring the total estimated cost of the overhaul to over $1 trillion.

Republicans pounced on the news, which they called another sign that the Obama administration makes promises it cannot deliver.

Repeal and replace is what the new majority GOP (House in 2010 and Senate & House in 2012) better run on and actually follow through with. Or we’ll find someone else who will.

From Questions and Observations:

The deeper look into the recently passed ObamaCare continues to yield “surprises”.  I put “surprises” in quotes, because to those who took the time to actually think about what was being proposed and the institution doing it, none of this really comes as a surprise.

For instance – does it surprise anyone that large companies might drop their health care coverage because the incentive to keep it is less than the incentive to drop it?  The new law actually makes it cheaper for Verizon, AT&T and Deere to pay a penalty and drop coverage than to continue to pay it.

Remember when Botox Piglosi said we had to “pass the bill” so we could “see what’s in the bill?” That includes all of the hidden costs, too.

AllahPundit’s not happy, either:

Of all the slime dripping from ObamaCare, from the de facto bribes to the procedural shenanigans to the Democrats’ insane demagoguery of townhall protesters, the gaming of the CBO numbers is what bothers me most.