More bad news for current and future generations of American Taxpayers. The CBO has released revised figures showing costs for the reform were not accurately estimated prior to Congress voting on it.

Congressional hopeful Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-25), is taking a strong stance for completely repealing the act.  A spokesperson for the Buerkle campaign released an assessment of the new CBO findings

Syracuse, New York – Republican and Conservative candidate for Congress Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-25) today highlighted an updated analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that estimates potential discretionary spending under the health care law at a minimum of $115 billion over 10 years — more than twice the size of the estimate released by the budget office shortly before President Obama signed the measure.  In its original forecast released March 13th, CBO estimated discretionary spending in the bill at a minimum of $50 billion.

With this new estimate, the health care overhaul championed by incumbent Dan Maffei will cost well over $1 trillion over the next ten years.

“Dan Maffei and Nancy Pelosi told us to ‘trust them’ and pass the bill,” said Buerkle.  “It turns out that trusting them will cost the American taxpayer twice as much as originally promised.”

In recent weeks, Buerkle has highlighted numerous problems with the massive overhaul bill.  A report last month from Medicare’s Office of the Actuary warned that the law’s drastic cuts to Medicare – used to pay for the massive government health care expansion for those currently uninsured – are unrealistic and unsustainable and will drive about 15% of American hospitals into the red and “possibly jeopardize access” to care for seniors.

Buerkle, a Registered Nurse and attorney specializing in health care, argues that health care reform as she has proposed would move today’s bureaucracy-driven, heavily-regulated third-party payment system to a new patient-centered system of consumer choice.  Her plan preserves patient choice, protects access to health care, and controls costs without hurting job growth, reducing patient care, or slashing Medicare for seniors.

Find out more at www.buerkleforcongress.com.