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President Obama says he will not sign a health care reform bill that adds to the deficit but GOP number-crunchers argue he will do just that if House Democrats continue their sleight-of-hand in calculating the long-term costs of their proposal.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the proposal now under consideration will cost over 10 years a little more than $1 trillion, depending on the final deal. House Democrats have vowed to find a way to pay for that cost despite an acknowledgement by a Congressional Budget Office official that the deficit will increase $239 billion because of Medicare payments to doctors.

But fully phased-in coverage of Americans under the plan will only occur for six of the 10 years measured by the CBO. That’s because the Democratic plan in the House will start collecting revenues in 2011 but won’t start providing coverage until 2013 and won’t be fully implemented until 2015.

According to an analysis by Republican staff of the House Ways and Means panel, the deficit from the health care reform bill would be $760 billion by 2024, the end of the first 10 years of full benefits coverage. It would be $1.6 trillion by the end of the 2020s.

The Republican projection takes the CBO estimates beyond the 10 years the agency is restricted by law from projecting and shows that while the program will cost about $1 trillion between 2011 and 2019, it will cost $2.2 trillion between 2015 and 2024, not counting offsets to reduce the cost.

Put another way, by 2019 the House proposals will be adding $65 billion a year to the deficit, even with all the revenue raisers Democrats are now proposing. The amount of deficit spending will continue to increase after 2019, which would mean Congress is creating another entitlement.

Another congressional source said deficits are “substantial and persistent.”

…Driving these cuts is the misconception that preventative care can eliminate sickness. As President Obama said in a speech to the American Medical Association: “We have to avoid illness and disease in the first place.” That would make sense if most diseases were preventable. But the two most prevalent diseases of aging—cancer and heart disease—are largely caused by genetics and their occurrence increases with age. Your risk of being diagnosed with cancer doubles from age 50 to 60, according to the National Cancer Institute.

The House bill shifts resources from specialty medicine to primary care based on the misconception that Americans overuse specialist care and drive up costs in the process (pp. 660-686). In fact, heart-disease patients treated by generalists instead of specialists are often misdiagnosed and treated incorrectly. They are readmitted to the hospital more frequently, and die sooner.

http://thupidity.com/2009/07/23/healthcare/government-run-healthcares-assault-on-seniors/