Dems Try To Hide Debt Increase Caused By ObamaCare

As we all know, PresBo has declared ad nauseum that his ObamaCare bill will not increase the deficit, “not even by one penny.” But the Democrats in the Senate have a problem… they’re having difficulties actually paying for an aspect of the plan. Their solution is nothing more than budgetary slight of hand… they plan to split the difficult portion out of the ObamaCare bill, pass it separately, and let it increase the deficit without “paying for it.” Since it’s no longer in the ObamaCare bill, they reason, Obama’s promise is intact. Bull.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28470.html

When President Barack Obama promised that health care reform would be fully paid for, many wondered how Democrats would fund a key provision whose cost is almost a third of the reform’s $900 billion price tag: protecting doctors from annual cuts to their Medicare reimbursement rates.

The Senate’s answer? Leave it out of the health care bill, rename it a “budgetary problem” and fix it separately — but without paying for it — by lumping it into the national debt. Voilà, promise kept.

That’s how Senate Democrats are dealing with their $245 billion Medicare reimbursement dilemma. The so-called doc fix was long expected to be part of comprehensive health care reform, but House and Senate Democrats now are signaling that they plan separate bills to deal with the expensive problem.

This is dishonest at best… but I’m not truly surprised. I’ve said for a while that the liberal Dems will do ANYTHING necessary to pass something they can call a success… and this seems to indicate that I’m right.

If deficits are too high and need to be reduced, as PresBo has indicated on more than one occasion, then splitting off that measure from ObamaCare doesn’t do anything useful. All it really does is show the Democrat leadership in a VERY unflattering light.

Are they really so out of touch with fiscal reality and with the mood of the American people that they think this is actually acceptable behavior? Unfortunately, I’m afraid that they are.