CBO Revises Estimate of the Cost of Senate Health Care Bill Upwards by $50 Billion

emptyquiver2 · 03-19-2010, 02:07 AM

LBR · 03-19-2010, 05:41 AM

How could the CBO give a cost analysis when they didn't even have a bill to analyze? It couldn't be done accurately and honestly even with the huge stack of toilet paper they released yesterday, because they have made it clear that it's just a "starting point", and they plan to make lots of "revisions" as soon as they can get it to pass.

Again though...I guess they think that people who were stupid enough to elect bho think they are stupid enough to believe anything he says, and they are probably right for the most part.

The funniest part is how pelosi and crew keep blaming the "other side", when they can't even convince (bribe, threaten, etc.) the members of their own party to support this garbage.

My guess is that by this coming Monday morning bho will have cemented his spot in the history books (the honest and factual ones at least) as the absolute worst and most incompetent POTUS ever.

James B · 03-19-2010, 05:13 PM

I don't know what the cost will be and if they were honest with the American people, which is the biggest joke of the century, they have no idea either. It is a wild a$$ quess. However, you can bet that it will be at least tripple their guess and once they have their stinking government foot in the door, there will be no end to the cost, mark my words. We the people are gonna get the shaft.

Howler · 03-19-2010, 06:46 PM

Wouldn't ya like to be a fly on the wall when Pelosi is meeting with the head of the CBO, behind closed doors to the public. The CBO is doing their best to put out numbers that the Dems. can work with, a number that they can use to persuade the public into thier corner.
As has been said already, the CBO is only guessing since there is NO ACTUAL BILL!! Thier numbers will continually change, and not for the better of WE THE PEOPLE!!

emptyquiver2 · 03-19-2010, 07:21 PM

The 940B figure for the cost mentioned today was a bogus amount. It was the Senate Reconciliation Bill figure without all the extras added in. The amount is now estimated at 1.59 Trillon by the CBO.