Democrats abandoning pretense that ObamaCare "will reduce costs and deficit"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41271.html

Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to "improve it."

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The presentation also concedes that the fiscal and economic arguments that were the White House's first and most aggressive sales pitch have essentially failed.