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Uncertainty Surrounding the Estimates.
The projections of the bill’s budgetary impact are quite uncertain, both because CBO has not completed
a detailed estimate of the effects of H.R. 2 and because assessing the effects
of making broad changes in the nation’s health care and health insurance
systems—or of reversing scheduled changes—requires assumptions about a
broad array of technical, behavioral, and economic factors. However,
CBO’s staff, in consultation with outside experts, has devoted a great deal
of care and effort to the analysis of health care legislation in the past few
years, and the agency strives to develop estimates that are in the middle of
the distribution of possible outcomes. As a result, CBO believes that its
estimates of the net budgetary effects of health care legislation have a
roughly equal chance of turning out to be too high or too low.
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that's from the letter. i doubt that the GOP or Speaker Boehner will consider anything the CBO has put forth until their detailed estimate comes out. the letter was cc'd to one of my senators, Mitch McConnell, and i doubt he'll even read the letter, let alone entertain any notion that the democrats might have a better plan.
that said, i'd just as soon there be no movement on H.R. 2 until the detailed analysis and budgetary impact are released. but i like the contrast in the names of the bills:
...............H.R. 2, the
Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
.................................................. .......vs
...............
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, Public Law 111-148)
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