February 7, 2011 10:22AM 

# ‘1099’ Repeal Speaks Volumes About ObamaCare 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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From my latest Kaiser Health News op-ed:

> When 34 Senate Democrats [joined](http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00008) all 47 Republicans last week to repeal ObamaCare’s 1099 reporting requirement, their votes confirmed what their talking points still deny: ObamaCare will increase the deficit, no matter what the official cost projections say…
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> This public-choice dynamic \[of *concentrated benefits* and *diffuse costs*\] is why the [Congressional Budget Office](http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10868/12-19-Reid_Letter_Managers_Correction_Noted.pdf), the [chief Medicare actuary](https://www.cms.gov/ActuarialStudies/Downloads/PPACA_2010-04-22.pdf), and even the [International Monetary Fund](http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fm/2010/fm1001.pdf) have discredited the idea that ObamaCare will reduce the deficit. It is one of the principal reasons why, as Thomas Jefferson [wrote](http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_natural_progress_of_things...(Quotation)), “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” In other words, the game is rigged in favor of bigger government.
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> It also explains why the Obama administration is sprinting to implement ObamaCare in spite of a federal court having struck down the law as [unconstitutional](http://aca-litigation.wikispaces.com/file/view/District+Court+final+opinion.pdf). The White House needs to get some concentrated interest groups hooked on ObamaCare’s subsidies – fast.

Read the whole thing [here](http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Columns/2011/February/020711cannon.aspx).

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