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    Underestimated cost of heath care law?

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-- for president Obama's health care law may be bigger than anyone anticipated.

Fifteen billion dollars bigger every year -- -- -- Shannon -- is here to tell us about new analysis with some alarming conclusions to -- -- Hi -- well that analysis comes from the national bureau of economic -- -- and the authors claim.

A simple accounting maneuver led the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to significantly.

Under estimate.

The cost of the new health care law.

According to the report the joint committee on taxation told the CBOT calculate costs.

By taking only individual workers into account and not the family members that would also need to be -- it.

And skeptics say health and human services secretary Kathleen Sebelius will have wide latitude when it comes to how the health care bill is interpreted in actual practice.

And that could lead to a much different result than what the CBO predicted.

How the bill will be implemented will likely be much different.

From how the Congressional Budget Office and the joint committee on taxation assumed that the bill would implement.

And if the bill is implemented then.

-- the way that we that expected to be implemented.

Than.

It will likely increase the cost of the bill by about fifty billion dollars per year after the premium tax credit.

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The White House is disputing the original story that unveiled the findings of the new study quote.

This story is not accurate the Affordable Care Act will extend coverage to millions of Americans and bring down the cost of health care for all of us.

Additional details regarding the implementation of the law will be considered in future regulations.

Most of those regulations will come from HHS and secretary civilians.

The premium tax credits that are the subject of this new analysis are scheduled to K again like many of the law's key provisions in 2014 Brett.

Patient and thank you.