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Scoring the CBO

Posted by Taylor on July 27th, 2009 under Economics, Healthcare, Obama Tags: , ,  •  1 Comment

With all the attention being given to the Congressional Budget Office’s projections and such regarding the health bills, the Cato Institute decided to see how their past projections have compared to reality.
“When Medicare was launched in 1965, Part A was projected to cost $9 billion by 1990, but ended up costing $67 billion. When Medicaid’s [...]