Public option would add $1 trillion to deficit

The report, Long-Term Cost of the American Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009: As Amended by the Energy and Commerce Committee in August 2009, found that America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (HR3200) would constrain the growth in the federal government’s healthcare costs to about $39 billion between 2010 and 2019 but would fail to keep costs from growing faster than funding sources in the long-term, beyond the normal 10-year budget projection period. The Lewin Group, which is owned by UnitedHealth Group, one of the country’s health insurers, also estimates that: