Democrats continue to find out what was in ObamaCare–and try to dismantle it

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Washington Examiner:

The Affordable Care Act was bad legislation, in part because it depended on plenty of imaginary budget savings.

“This is a coverage bill, not a cost reduction bill,” top Senate staffer David Bowen said to a K Street audience after the bill passed. Bowen said that Senate Democrats had decided to do the same thing Massachusetts had done: “do coverage first, knowing that that would bring on a cost battle second.”

But since the passage of Obamacare, the cost-controls and offsets have one-by-one been stripped out.

First, Democrats killed the ill-conceived long-term-care-insurance measure, known as the CLASS Act. This provision, which provided government insurance for long-term care, was, amazingly, booked as reducing the deficit. This was ridiculous, and after the bill passed, Democrats realized it was a disaster, and they repealed the provision.