The cost of health reform keeps on rising—at least according to new analysis.

The cost of providing subsidies to help people buy insurance has increased by nearly 25 percent since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed and will continue to rise in coming years, a report published by the American Action Forum finds.

The think tank—led by former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin—compared CBO's initial estimates for the law to CBO's most recent analysis, issued this summer after the Supreme Court upheld the law.

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