[quote=livinincali]
The Congressional Budget Office says the ACA subsidies is costing $737 billion in 2019 and it will rise to 1.3 trillion by 2029. If you’re saying roughly 1 trillion per year for the next 10 years it’s pretty accurate.
Did you even read your own link? It’s about many federal healthcare programs, not just ACA. And it clearly says that ACA is only a small fraction of the $737 billion total.
In each year during the period, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program account for between 40 percent and 45 percent of the federal subsidies, as do subsidies in the form of tax benefits for work-related insurance. Medicare accounts for about 10 percent, and subsidies for coverage obtained through the marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act or through the Basic Health Program account for less than 10 percent.
The federal government spends a lot of money on healthcare, but ACA only accounts for a small part of that expense. Ucodegen’s original point about ACA specifically creating a hidden $1 trillion dollar per year time bomb is simply false.
Here’s a better article describing the specific costs of ACA:
The worst case estimate from the CBO is $1.76 Trillion over an eleven year period…an order of magnitude less than ucodegen’s numbers and much closer to spdrun’s numbers.
