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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (17099)4/19/2010 9:45:22 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
The CBO has greater credibility than the RW.

Not on this issue. The CBO has been wrong every single time its estimated the cost for a new major federal medical care payment program. And by wrong I don't mean marginally off, no one would expect perfection, but very far off. It was wrong on Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare Part D... So why should I take its numbers seriously on Obamacare?

I might accept an estimate from an organization with a lousy track record, after all the person making an argument doesn't make it wrong or right, but I would need more than an argument from authority? X will happen because the CBO says it will, when the CBO has said all sorts of things that turned out to be false in this area before, just doesn't cut it.
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