http://www.laborradio.org/Channels/Story.aspx?ID=13397401/6/2011
By Doug Cunningham
Republicans in the U.S. House are pressing ahead with an effort to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act that would bring health insurance to 30 million Americans who don’t have it. Now the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says if health care reform is repealed it will cause a big increase in the federal budget deficit - $230 billion over the next decade and $1.2 trillion in the decade after that. The same Republicans who say they are so concerned about the deficit are using their first major vote in the House to make the deficit hundreds of billions of dollars worse.
