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To: TimF who wrote (539908)	12/31/2009 4:42:33 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1574798

From what I read, the CBO did use their own assumption in scoring the health care reform stuff during the summer. The dems didn't like the results, so they directed the CBO to use the OMB numbers. Surprise surprise, we're now going to save money by adding more people to Medicare, a program that is digging the debt hole deeper and deeper already.

To: TimF who wrote (539908)	12/31/2009 5:27:40 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1574798

>> The CBO has to "play by" pre-defined rules, and members of congress know how to structure bills to manipulate those rules to get good scores whatever the actual fiscal results. I agree, but the extreme pressure to get it done has resulted in some massive errors that required correction after the fact. The result is that Congress voted on the bill that even CBO has now admitted was scored incorrectly, and not by just a little. Not that it matters. It wouldn't have changed one single vote.