Impeding changes to our Health Care system

[TheMercenary]

Here is a good opinion bit from the NYT on the actual costs, real and political, and some quotes about critical assessments of the CBO process and importance, which I have raised numerous times.

March 19, 2010

Checking the Math on Health Care

As the Economist once put it, “As a creature of Congress, the C.B.O. is required to pretend to believe many impossible things before breakfast.”

“The C.B.O. process has now been so thoroughly gamed that it’s useless,” writes Megan McArdle of the Atlantic. She’s concerned about how many of the costs have been pushed to the tail end of the budgeting period, and that the excise tax on so-called gold-plated insurance plans won’t take effect until 2018:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...n-health-care/