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Wallace Selectively Quotes CBO To Suggest Senate Bill Increases Costs
Wallace Selectively Quotes CBO To Suggest Senate Bill Increases Costs
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace selectively quoted the Congressional Budget Office analysis of... the merged Senate legislation to suggest that the Senate health legislation would increase government outlays on health care over 20 ... (more) Wallace Selectively Quotes CBO To Suggest Senate Bill ...
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Wallace Selectively Quotes CBO To Suggest Senate Bill Increases Costs
Wonk Room — This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace selectively quoted the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the merged Senate legislation to suggest that the Senate health legislation would increase government outlays on health care over 20 years and bend the cost-cure upward: WALLACE: According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, federal outlays for health care would increase during the 2010-2019 period and the government run health insurance plan would typically have premiums that were somewhat higher than the average premiums for the private plan. So here’s the question. The Democratic plan by the CBO’s own ...

Chris Wallace selectively quotes CBO analysis to suggest Senate health bill increases costs.
Think Progress — This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace selectively quoted the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the merged Senate legislation to suggest that the Senate health legislation would increase government outlays on health care over 20 years and bend the cost-cure upward: WALLACE: According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, federal outlays for health care would increase during the 2010-2019 period and the government-run health insurance plan would typically have premiums that were somewhat higher than the average premiums for the private plan. So here’s the question. The Democratic plan by the CBO’s own scoring fails ...

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