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Did republicans ever give the CBO a more realistic set of assumptions for the current reform bills?

Would it have mattered?

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Obviously the democrats would not give them the chance to get their own CBO score in time, but the phony CBO score gave Blue Dog Dems political cover to vote for it. What republicans need to do is get the real CBO score and use it to say HR was passed on a big lie. Voters are worried about the deficit.

Republicans are still on TV saying they disagree with the CBO score, while dems are saying they got the CBO blessing. It's political war and Obama just got the upper hand back for a while. Republicans need to hold a paper on TV saying the CBO report says Obama-care will run up huge deficits.