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Obama Confuses Decades, Inflates Estimated
Health Care Savings by $868B
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Obama boasted Monday that Democrats' health care proposals would cut deficits by $1 trillion "over the next 'Slow Death By
decade," a flub that inflated the actual estimate by $868 billion Rubber Duck'
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President Obama, making his final push for health care reform, pitched his proposal Monday to a crowd in
Pennsylvania with a deficit-reduction figure that the White House later admitted missed the mark.

"Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill, which reduces most Teacher to
people's premiums and brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion dollars over the next decade because Testify on
we're spending our health care dollars more wisely," Obama told an audience at Arcadia University in
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Obama was so proud of these cost-saving numbers in the latest version of health care reform, he delved into March 09, 2010
a bit of Washington-speak to back them up.

"Those aren't my numbers," Obama said to the rising applause of the estimated 1,300 in attendance. "They
are the savings determined by the Congressional Budget Office, which is the nonpartisan, independent
referee of Congress for what things cost."
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But the budget office did not say the Senate health care bill would save $1 trillion over the next decade -- or on 'Fox &
even close to that figure. Friends'
It estimated the bill would save $132 billion from 2010 to 2019, leaving Obama's "next decade" estimate Fmr. Minnesota gov.
$868 billion short. on new book
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When contacted about this disparity, a White House official said Obama meant to say the Senate bill would
save $1 trillion in its second decade -- a projection that would more closely match congressional analysts'
estimates.

The budget office, in estimating possible second-decade savings of up to $1 trillion, also cautioned against
putting too much stock in figures for a period so far in the future: "A detailed year-by-year projection for years Marine Mom's
beyond 2019 ... would not be meaningful, because the uncertainties involved are simply too great." Book on Coping
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Nevertheless, Obama is pressing Congress to act on reform measures in the face of united Republican combat overseas
opposition and a Democratic majority that is nervous about the upcoming midterm elections. He made the
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case Monday that all issues had been considered, all ideas vetted. It is time to take a stand he said.

"We have debated health care in Washington for more than a year," Obama said. "Every proposal has been
put on the table. Every argument has been made. The need is great, the opportunity is here. Let's seize
reform. It's within our grasp."
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