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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently reported that the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold most of the Affordable Care Act will save about $84 billion, but also means that 3 million more people will lack health insurance.
According to The Hill’s Healthwatch blog, the two changes result from the court’s decision that states must be allowed to opt out of the health care reform law’s Medicaid expansion.
CBO also estimated that a complete repeal of the ACA would increase federal deficits by $109 billion in 10 years, though that did mark a reduction from a previous estimate of $210 billion.
Both political parties found partisan ammunition in the report: