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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (11430)11/17/2009 6:03:37 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
CBO thinks so.

Not that I care much if they do, but I doubt it. The CBO analyzes programs according to specific rules and processes. Congress set up this bill to score well with the CBO's processes, but aren't very meaningful in the real world.

And that's about the budgetary cost, not the cost. The CBO didn't say that health care would in the long run be less expensive and more efficient (less cost without reducing quantity or quality of care below what they would otherwise have been). It made a budget projection.

Beyond that there isn't any reason to think the CBO would really be that good at estimating the long term impact of this bill on medical care cost increases. No one would be good at doing it, and also that isn't a particular area of expertise for the CBO.
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