For many months after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare — became law, it was mainly the measure’s conservative opponents who ruefully contemplated then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s remark that “we have to pass the health care bill so you can see what’s in it.” Opponents anxiously wondered if people might actually like what they found in the law once it was on the books. If that occurred, odds were good Obamacare would never be repealed. And there would be no stopping government takeovers of other major sectors of the economy.
More recently, as revelations have accumulated concerning what could happen once Obamacare is fully implemented, it may well be the measure’s liberal proponents who have the most to fear from learning more about Obamacare. The report released Thursday by the Congressional Budget Office could only magnify such fears because the analysis devastated President Obama’s most frequently uttered claim on behalf of his health care reform: “If you like your present coverage, you can keep it.”
