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To: i-node who wrote (687559)	12/8/2012 5:53:01 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) of 1583098

The Part D estimate is a perfect example -- it did not and could not have taken into account the structure of the program -- which involved a lot of private enterprise, competition, and giving beneficiaries skin in the game; all pretty much foreign concepts to CBO to begin with, and requiring analysis of macroeconomic factors that just aren't much subject to estimation. As part of the government bureaucracy, they could not have been expected to understand how unleashing competition and giving patients responsibility for their own costs would affect the cost of the program. And I doubt they were given that flexibility to begin with. The point was that obama tried to pay for his program...bush didn't. Your reaction to both is wholly inconsistent...defending bush's and attacking obama. But that wasn't the point ten made...he claimed that obama promised free care and failed to deliver it...neither is true. But back to ten's point...it was bush who promised "free stuff and delivered it". But of course we both know that nothing is free. Al

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