Voices worked throughout the health reform effort to counter misinformation in the debate.  Today, I’d like to call attention to a Washington Post piece by Ezra Klein that examines the idea of the “10-6 dodge.”

Health reform critics argued that the health bill only managed to be budget nuetral by raising taxes now and enacting benefits later–10 years of paying for only 6 years of benefits. But as Klein shows, the numbers don’t really bear this out.  Actually, both spending and services are miniscule in the lead up to health reform’s big roll out in 2014, when most of the health policy changes go into effect.

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