If you didn't already know enough to regard yesterday's CBO numbers as nothing more than a pile of shit, now you do.

"Thus, the legislation’s effects on the rest of the budget—other than the cash flows of the HI trust fund—would amount to a net increase in federal deficits of $260 billion over the same period."

It's all smoke and mirrors folks. This thing will cost upwards of $2.5 trillion and add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit in perpetuity.

This is all by design.

Russ