Another set of cooked books

nypost.com — SENATE Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate's latest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same accounting trick as past versions: 99% of the costs don't kick in until the 5th year of that "10-year" period. The true 10-year costs are well over twice what Reid's advertising: $1.8 trillion. Nov 20, 2009 View in Crawl 4