Affordable Care Act could cost taxpayers billions

The Congressional Budget Office now projects President Obama’s health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, not the $940 billion the CBO estimated before it was signed into law. This number could climb even higher if the expectations of some analysts come to fruition. According to Rea Hederman, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, fundamental flaws in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have emerged since it was signed into…