March 2013 | Joel C. Cantor | Opinion: The Health Reform Windfall
In his Budget Address on February 26, Gov. Chris Christie said that by expanding Medicaid, “taxpayers will save approximately $227 million in Fiscal Year 2014 alone.”
How can that be? Where do the governor’s savings claims come from? Are they real? Will the savings last beyond 2014?
While I am not privy to the calculations used by the governor’s staff, I can say with confidence that the savings are, indeed, real.