Mike Pence is horribly, horribly confused by easy math

In it's first ten years, Obamacare will cost $940 billion and save a total of $1.07 trillion. A net savings of $130 billion.

Easy math: $1070 minus 940. Mike Pence is either confused, stupid or deliberately playing dumb because the facts are not what he wishes them to be. My guess is a mix of 2 and 3.

Ezra Klein

"Only in Washington," said Rep. Mike Pence, "can you spend a trillion dollars and say you’re gonna save the taxpayers' money.”

And only in Washington can such willful obtuseness be considered a professional attribute. You can believe that the savings in the Democratic plan will work as CBO thinks they will work, or you can disagree with that. But let's not pretend there's something complicated about the theory of spending money and saving money at the same time.