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[Please scroll down for update]As we've mentioned before,
proponents of ObamaCare© planned to try a little
sleight of hand with the numbers:"In order to avoid "adding one
dime to the deficit", Obamacare ... had to play shell games with
the funding. One way was to cut pay to doctors who treat Medicare
patients by 21%.In doing so they stripped billions out of the cost
of Obamacare by projecting a $200 billion savings ... The game plan
was to add those billions back in via a separate bill termed "doc
fix."Of course, this "savings" was anything but, since the trick
was to just add those dollars back in under a different budget
line. The assumption was that there would be no actual cut. But we
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