Op-Ed Contributor - Congress’s Health Care Numbers Don’t Add Up - NYTimes.com

The Congressional Budget Office’s cautious methods of projecting costs may have unintended consequences in the current health care reform effort, because they have consistently underestimated savings, often projecting increased costs where significant savings were the actual result. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Alfred Ingram - Aug 25, 2009 - 10:13 PM PDT
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This makes us aware of what may be a fundamental flaw in the way the Congressional Budget Office estmates costs in health care legislation. Important newa

The doom and gloom we've been hearing about lackof cost controls in the various plans might be dangerously overblown.

The Congressional Budget Office’s consistent forecasting errors arose not from any partisan bias, but from its methods of projection. In analyzing initiatives meant to ... More »

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