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They Just Make S%$t up: Republicans Reject Cost Estimate of Health Law Repeal

By David Feige

I just love this:The nonpartisan budget scorekeepers in Congress said on Thursday that the Republican plan to repeal President Obama?s health care law would add $230 billion to federal budget deficits over the next decade.The new Speaker's response?:?I do not believe that repealing the job-killing health care law will increase the deficit,? he said.?C.B.O. is entitled to their opinion,? he said, but he said Democrats had manipulated the rules established for determining the cost of a program under the 1974 Budget Act.Classic: Republican "belief" vs actual analysis. ?C.B.O. can only provide a score based on the assumptions that are given to them,? Mr. Boehner said. ?And if you go back and look at the health care bill and the assumptions that were given to them, you see all of the double-counting that went on...continue to full post

Full post as published by Indefensible on January 07, 2011 (boomark / email).