Just before the final House vote on Obamacare last March, the CBO produced a cost estimate of just under $1 trillion. One of the reasons the cost estimate came in so low was that Obama and congressional Democrats had included large Medicare payment cuts to physicians in their “reform” bill.
But now that Obamacare has passed based on his commitment to cut physician payments, Obama wants to pass a “doc fix” that erases those cuts. Predictably, he used his weekly address to castigate the GOP for insisting that he and his congressional accomplices keep their word (for once):
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