{"id":447956,"date":"2010-03-19T15:11:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79785"},"modified":"2010-03-19T15:11:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:11:56","slug":"cbo-was-definitive-word-on-gop%e2%80%99s-health-care-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447956","title":{"rendered":"CBO Was Definitive Word on GOP\u2019s Health Care Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/03\/18\/michael-steele-says-cbo-l_n_504947.html\" >dismissing as inaccurate<\/a> the Congressional Budget Office&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/87801-138-billion-saving-boosts-dem-hopes\" >cost analysis<\/a> of the Democrats&#8217; health care reform bills seem to have forgotten <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/69151\/how-quickly-they-forget-2\" >history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004 &#8212; amid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contingencies.org\/novdec04\/coverstory.pdf\" >controversy<\/a> over the Bush administration&#8217;s efforts <a href=\"http:\/\/oig.hhs.gov\/publications\/docs\/press\/2004\/070704IGStatement.pdf\" >to bury<\/a> unflattering cost estimates of the Republican&#8217;s Medicare reforms &#8212; no less an authority than Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) deemed the CBO&#8217;s analysis the final word.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The true cost estimate as far as Congress is concerned is that of the Congressional Budget Office,&#8221; Grassley, then the chairman of the Finance Committee, said in <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.senate.gov\/press\/Gpress\/2004\/prg070604.pdf\" >a July 2004 statement<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;re required by law to abide by the cost estimates prepared by the Congressional Budget Office.&#8221;<span id=\"more-79785\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The CBO yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/113xx\/doc11355\/hr4872.pdf\" >released its cost estimate<\/a> of the Democrats&#8217; reform bills, finding that enactment of the Senate-passed bill and the reconciliation fixes would yield $138 billion in budget savings over the next 10 years. That hasn&#8217;t helped Republicans, who have warned for months that the reforms would bankrupt the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans dismissing as inaccurate the Congressional Budget Office&#8217;s cost analysis of the Democrats&#8217; health care reform bills seem to have forgotten history. In 2004 &#8212; amid controversy over the Bush administration&#8217;s efforts to bury unflattering cost estimates of the Republican&#8217;s Medicare reforms &#8212; no less an authority than Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) deemed the CBO&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}