The USA Today’s Susan Page worked on a tight deadline to get her July 15th story How much health care for $1 trillion? published, and it shows. First she gets the price tag of the House bill wrong. She cites it as $1.042 trillion. But that is only the current net impact on the deficit, which includes some early “pay-fors” in the bill including an employer “pay-or-play” employer mandate. The CBO has not done a complete scoring on the net impact to the deficit since they have not scored the surtax and other Medicare payment reduction in the bill. … Continue Reading