The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) re-examined President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul following the U.S. Supreme Court decision last month to uphold most of the law, and the agency's budget experts still say it is expected to reduce federal budget deficits. The CBO said the top court's ruling that upheld most of the law but changed Medicaid requirements will save the government about $84 billion over 11 years. Most of the savings will come from states limiting expansion of their Medicaid healthcare coverage for the poor. The CBO also said that repealing the Obama healthcare law, as Republicans vow to do, would increase the deficit over the next decade by $109 billion, mostly because the law includes revenue increases and cost savings to pay for expanding medical coverage to the millions of uninsured Americans.
