Reality has been harsh to Congressional Democrats lately.

When the non-partisan, official Congressional Budget Office isn’t revealing that their plans would hike the deficit significantly, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is reporting that revised plans would increase — not cut — health spending.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. healthcare spending would rise by about $234 billion over the next decade under the Senate Democrats’ overhaul bill and some of the proposed savings might never be achieved, a U.S. agency said in a report released on Friday.

It was the latest in a series of reports issued by the agency that oversees Medicare that cast doubt on some of the savings claims made by Democrats about one of President Barack Obama’s top domestic priorities.

You know why? Because Democrats are lying to our faces. You don’t add millions of citizens to the government dole and decrease costs or improve healthcare quality. You pay more and deal with serious rationing. Even Saturday Night Live was able to see that truth in its Obama/Chinese press conference parody.

“This report confirms what we’ve long known — the Democrat plan will increase costs, raise premiums, and slash Medicare,” said Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. “That’s not reform. This analysis speaks for itself. This bill is a sham.”

Max Baucus (D-MT), best known lately for giving his mistress a $14,000 salary increase before appointing her U.S. Attorney and taking her on taxpayer-funded trips around the world, is in severe denial.

“The report shows that health reform will ensure both the federal government and the American people spend less on health care than if this bill doesn’t pass, helping get a hold of America’s debt and keep more money in people’s pockets,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, who helped write the legislation.

Um. Actually, the report says we’ll be paying more for healthcare under the Senate proposal. Hundreds of billions of dollars more, in fact. As Reuters reports below:

The report, written by Richard Foster, the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the increase in healthcare spending reflected the impact of millions of newly covered people seeking medical care.

“Although several provisions would help to reduce healthcare cost growth, their impact would be more than offset through 2019 by the higher health expenditures resulting from the coverage expansions,” the report said.

Higher costs.

The report, similar to one issued by the agency on the healthcare bill passed by the House of Representatives in November, went on to say the added demand for health services at first may be difficult to meet and could lead to price increases and a reluctance by providers to treat patients with low-reimbursement health coverage.

Medicare has significantly lower reimbursement rates than private insurers. Doctors, clinics and hospitals that rely heavily on Medicare patients for business “could find it difficult to remain profitable and, absent legislative intervention, might end their participation in the program,” the report said.

Rationing.

Congress would probably find that politically unacceptable and the report concluded some of the Medicare cost saving proposals “may be unrealistic.”

Lies from Congressional Democrats.

Higher costs, more deficit spending, rationing of care, bureaucrats between you and your doctor, and millions still left uninsured. What a deal.