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To: i-node who wrote (847412)	4/3/2015 6:54:18 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574092

re: Dropping forecast, it is on Elmendorf's blog somewhere because I read it and it should be there. Here's a news account. Yeah, well, that's what I thought. The statement refers to the CBO no longer being able to estimate the REPEAL of Obamacare, not the program itself. Note that the FT left out the first sentence of that paragraph, below highlighted in red. It's sad that these conservative publications need to resort to lies to support their bias...and I just can't let lies stand. See Congressional Budget Office, letter to the Honorable John Boehner providing an estimate for H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act (July 24, 2012), www.cbo.gov/publication/ 43471. CBO and JCT can no longer determine exactly how the provisions of the ACA that are not related to the expansion of health insurance coverage have affected their projections of direct spending and revenues. The provisions that expand insurance coverage established entirely new programs or components of programs that can be isolated and reassessed. In contrast, other provisions of the ACA significantly modified existing federal programs and made changes to the Internal Revenue Code. Isolating the incremental effects of those provisions on previously existing programs and revenues four years after enactment of the ACA is not possible. The rest of your post is fair litigation material...but I am afraid that we've killed it dead many times already and won't agree this time either... Al