Op-Ed Contributor – Congress’s Health Care Numbers Don’t Add Up
NYTimes.com
By JON R. GABEL
Published: August 25, 2009
FOR competence and integrity, few organizations command more respect in Washington than the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. As health care reform makes its way through Congress, the budget office’s assessment of how much various elements might cost may determine the details of legislation, and whether it ultimately passes. But when it comes to forecasting the costs of reform, the budget office’s record is suspect. In each of the past three decades, when assessing major changes in Medicare, it has substantially underestimated the savings the changes would bring.
Op-Ed Contributor – Congress’s Health Care Numbers Don’t Add Up – NYTimes.com
