[Lmo56]

I remember for weeks prior to obamacare passing, the CBO was coming out with figures detrimental to the bill, saying it would not be affordable, or something to that effect.

But magically, just a couple days before it passed, they gave it their full blessings - just in time to win over the few fiscally responsible blue dogs to get them to change their votes to "yes".

Congress took out the "Doc Fix" [payments that need to be made to doctors for Medicare reimbursement] from the healthcare bill. This "lowered" the cost of the bill and Congress ordered the CBO to analyze the bill "as is" [without the "Doc Fix"]. It also had to base it on 10 years of revenue in [2010-2020] but only 6 years of payments out [2014-2020].

What the CBO is looking out now is the TOTAL federal budget thru 2020 ...

BTW: The "Doc Fix" is going to be paid for in a separate bill ...

[FrankR]

Thanks for the update, I tend to get lost in all that CBO and budget talk...which is probably what this administration hopes all of us will do.