Wednesday, January 26, 2011

If Congress approves Obama's discretionary spending freeze, what is the future of health insurance reform?

The CBO reports that the health insurance bill currently in conference will cost somewhere between $900 billion and $1.2 trillion. Does the freeze only start AFTER this bill is signed into law? Or will there be some fuzzy math involved to exempt this from the freeze?
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The CBO will be pressured to say that the healthcare takeover is budget neutral, so it will be exempt from the freeze. Since Obama came in, the CBO is no longer an independent voice of analysis on Capitol Hill.
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