Democrats used massive fraud to pass health care

Phillip Klein:

Nearly half of the deficit reduction that Democrats claimed when President Obama signed the national health care law would be wiped away by the administration'srecomendation against implementing a doomed long-term care program.

As Obamacare's critics noted at the time, Democrats' deficit reduction claims were based on a series of accounting gimmicks. One of the most obvious was the inclusion of the Community Living Assistance and Support Services Act, a program that was slated to collect five years of premiums before paying out any benefits. Though it was unsustainable over time, on paper it produced surpluses during the Congressional Budget Office's 10-year budget window.

At the time of final passage, the CBO found that the health care law would reduce deficits by $143 billion, and $70 billion of that was attributable to the CLASS program.

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The Washington Post puts the reduction at $86 billion.   This was part of a massive fraud used to pass the bil, which barely passed anyway.  If they had been honest, it is unlikely that any of it would have passed.  There is still the double counting on Medicare and there are other aspects to the program similar to the CLASS gimmick.  If they lose in the court on the individual mandate the rest of the stack of cards will crumble.