All those health care cost projections confusing?  Don't worry, they're wrong.  Carpe Diem points us to a Joint Economic Committee (JEC) study that reveals some rather dramatic gaps between projected costs for new health programs and their actual costs.  Medicaid, for example, cost us a whopping 1700% more than was projected. 

So, take the $1,042 billion, ten-year cost estimate for the current bill and multiply - $17,714 billion?  What if we are kind and give the advantage to the plan estimates, applying the Massachusetts' mandatory coverage estimate:  $1,042 times 120% = $1,250 - just a couple hundred billion off.

Remember the goals:  Increased access (which will surely be shot down by a shortage of health care providers as reimbursements are ratcheted down to meet missed budget targets) and lower costs (which has clearly been demonstrated to be a myth).

The question to ask is why?  Why continue when your stated goals won't be met?