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According to the CBO, the provisions of the bill that cost money — the Medicaid expansion, the subsidies and so forth — will grow by 7 percent annually over the second decade. But the tax on high-cost insurance plans, which doesn’t raise all that much money in the first 10 years, would grow by 15 percent a year. The savings in Medicare and Medicaid would grow by 10 percent to 15 percent. In other words, if you’re worried about the deficit, you should vote for, rather than against, health-care reform, as health-care reform actually improves the deficit.
— Ezra Klein (via squashed)
