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In reply to the discussion: Budget Office: Obama's Health Law Reduces Deficit. [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)as since something that does not even come into play until 2014 may not be what they say it will be. And furthermore the section of the ACA that contains the subsidy provisions could be altered or deleted by then.
We all of us know about government acts that had certain provisions changed overnight through the passage of another act. For instance, the nation lost Glass Steagall through the passage of a banking "reform " measure back in 1999 0r 2000, which Bill Clinton went and signed rather than vetoed.
(I have no idea if he know that Glass Steagall was being deleted from our nation's laws when he signed it, and I doubt anyone else knows either.) But anyway, the ACA is not going to be immune from having various of its provisions altered or deleted. Gosh oh gee, if only that bright young black man had won in 2008 - he had campaigned on the notion that he would, if elected see to it that there would be transperancy in laws going through Congress, and that we would no longer have 2,000 pages plus to read in order to know what the law means(meant.)