Denver Post: HHS audit says health overhaul will increase costs

[Beet]

This analysis was completed a week before the vote but suppressed by the Obama administration until late last week.  Gee.  I wonder why.

Well, it certainly wasn't to hide the nearly identical findings that the same department came to in a in January which had already been released to the media and widely reported.

Also: What does this report actually say? It basically says that in order to insure 34 million more people, more money will be spent in aggregate, and the overall effect on costs will be negligible. But the headline number reported is aggregate spending, which the media is confusing with costs.

[Beet]

Re: "Cornhusker" kickback:

The fact that we are debating something that is not even law as if it were law is a perfect reflection of the twilight zone that Republicans tend to enter in when they start talking about the health care plan that they proposed in 1993. When this happens, Democrats feel like Winston in 1984: They know the truth, but something else is being forced into their minds with such determination and conviction and they know it is useless to resist this mental rape.