From a 1/19/2011 Wall Street Journal Opinion Editorial article titled, Health Care Repeal Won't Add to the Deficit:
The history of federal entitlements is one of inexorable growth. Once erected, more and more people get added to the programs. The ACA will be no different. Spending will soar, and the tax hikes and spending "offsets" that were cobbled together to get the bill passed will either wither away or vanish altogether.
Repeal isn't a budget buster; keeping the ACA is. Assertions to the contrary are, well, audacious.
Mr. Holtz-Eakin is president of the American Action Forum and a former director of CBO. Mr. Antos is Wilson Taylor Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former assistant director at CBO. Mr. Capretta is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a former associate director at the Office of Management and Budget.