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April 04, 2012 at 09:46 AM
White House officials are trying to put Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analyses of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in a different light.
Republicans contend that the Obama administration fiscal year 2013 budget proposal and CBO analyses of PPACA show that PPACA will be much more expensive than backers had suggested and make the federal budget deficit worse.
Jeanne Lambrew, the deputy assistant to President Obama for health policy, says in a White House blog entry that PPACA opponents are using “new math” to make false claims about PPACA’s projected budget impact.
The opponents are pointing to CBO projections and contending that the total cost of PPACA will be $1.7 trillion from 2012 through 2021, or twice as high as originally projected, Lambrew says.
PPACA opponents are not adjusting for the effects of population growth, inflation, or PPACA provisions that should save money over time, Lambrew says.
