REPORT: ObamaCare’s Phony Accounting. “Charles Blahous, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and one of the two public trustees for the Social Security and Medicare programs, is out with a study that confirms the common-sense argument conservatives have been making for years: You can’t vastly expand and subsidize gold-plated health-care insurance and expect to save money.” Who could have seen that coming?