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What Ben Nelson didn?t tell Nebraskans

By Alliance Alert

James Pethokoukis, Reuters: "The act would reduce Medicare spending on hospital stays by $245 billion from 2010-2019, while increasing tax revenue by $113 billion. So on paper, Medicare?s hospital insurance trust fund would be some $358 billion to the better, boosting its long-term solvency. But the government then takes that $358 billion and uses it to pay for increased, non-Medicare healthcare spending ? leaving $358 billion worth of IOUs in the Medicare trust fund. If not for that $358 billion shift, the act would worsen the deficit by $226 billion over the next ten years."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on December 31, 2009 (boomark / email).