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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (14952)	3/21/2010 11:59:19 AM
From: HPilot	Respond to of 42652

So you think they should just wing it? Make WAGs? No they do it with a system Congress thinks is advantageous toward making their bills look good. For example not using the figures for Dr. Fix towards their bills. Congress is their boss. It is smart to make the boss look good. From their site. "CBO was founded on July 12, 1974, with the enactment of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act (P.L. 93-344). The agency began operating on February 24, 1975, with the appointment of Alice Rivlin as the first director."