claim: the health care reform law "reduces the deficit by nearly $1.2 trillion over the next two decades."
author: bobby scott
evidence_1: mar 13, 2017 ... cbo and jct estimate that enacting the american health care act would reduce  federal deficits by $337 billion over the coming decade and ... combines the  pieces of legislation approved by the two committees pursuant to that resolution.  in ... outlays would be reduced by $1.2 trillion over the period, and ...
evidence_2: mar 18, 2010 ... the projection for the next decade is murkier. ... in order to arrive at the $1.2  trillion figure, pelosi -- and other democratic leaders who ... in addition to  presenting deficit cuts from the legislation as a percentage of gdp, ... for example , that the plan to reduce payment updates to health care providers through ...
evidence_3: if the committee fails, an automatic cut of 2 percent is authorized for medicare, ...  the budget control act of 2011 has failed to recommend a strategy for reducing  the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next decade, ... there are a variety of  ways to achieve savings in health care entitlements, though not all are sound  policy.
evidence_4: jan 5, 2011 ... conservatives in the congress are intent on taking these benefits away. ...  estimated the law will reduce the federal budget deficit by $143 billion over the  first 10 years and more than $1.2 trillion over the next two decades.
evidence_5: jun 9, 2005 ... repealing it without offsets, however, would add nearly $1.2 trillion to deficits and  the federal debt over the next decade, assuming the 2001 ...