12/23/2009

Double counting savings in Health Care Bill

The CBO admits this, but they haven't gone back and fixed their earlier estimated savings.

"To describe the full amount of HI trust fund savings as both improving the government’s ability to pay future Medicare benefits and financing new spending outside of Medicare would essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus overstate the improvement in the government’s fiscal position."

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