Adding...
The source
you brought to this thread says that the Affordable Care Act will bend the cost curve and reduce the deficit. It won't solve everything given the scope of the problems, but the legislation does what it claimed it would do.
The source you rely on said the legislation will "
reduce the federal budgetary commitment to health care" starting in 2019, will "
reduce budget deficits by about 140 billion during the 2010-2019 period" and by about "
one-half percent of (GDP) during the following decade". The source you rely on said "
projected reductions in budget deficits and in the federal budgetary commitment to health care during the decade beyond the 10-year budget window are steps in the direction of sustainable fiscal policy. Small steps given the scope of the problem, but positive steps nonetheless.
That's what the source you brought to the thread says, and he contradicts you. So, you fall back to saying that the source you relied on is wrong because Congress won't follow the legislation.
I posted this interview before. Congress has been very good at sticking to cuts in Medicare in the past and there's no reason to believe they won't this time. And "deficit nihilism", the belief that we shouldn't enact legislation that cuts the deficit because we won't stick to the legislation, is nonsensical. If we follow that logic we have no options and might as well just give up.
The ACA, according to your source, pays for itself, reduces the deficit in the short term and even more in the long term, and bends the cost curve. Oh, and it extends coverage to millions of people who would have had health insurance otherwise. All that is exactly how it was sold. While it doesn't completely solve all our long term problems it's a positive step in the right direction. You attacking it as bad when it improves our situation makes it clear what you are... a partisan constantly searching for a reason to attack Obama.
