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Monday, May 10, 2010

How Health Reform Helps Reduce the Deficit

How Health Reform Helps Reduce the Deficit
The new health reform law will extend coverage to over 30 million uninsured Americans and provide important consumer protections to tens of millions of insured Americans whose coverage may have critical gaps. These coverage expansions will be more than paid for by specific reductions in spending for Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs and by additional tax revenues. Overall, health reform will reduce the deficit by $143 billion over 2010-2019, according to the Congressional Budget …

 



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