Showing posts with label CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf. Show all posts

Saturday, January 17, 2015

SCOTUS Showdown Over Obamacare--Obama will lose

January 17, 2015 CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf , Congressional Budget Office 0 Comments
Analysis: CBO Contradicted The Latest Case Against Obamacare 68 Different Times

Sarah Kliff, Jan. 16, 2015, Vox

The Congressional Budget Office wrote 68 reports about the Affordable Care Act during the session that Congress debated the law. Not one of them, a new analysis from Harvard University's Theda Skocpol, ever explored the possibility of limiting insurance subsidies to the state marketplaces after the law's full implementation.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

"CBO Director: Warns About Coming Changes to Social Security"

"CBO Director: Warns About Coming Changes to Social Security"

March 19, 2014 CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf , CNSNews.com 0 Comments
By Susan Jones (CNSNews.com)  

The United States faces "fundamental fiscal challenges" stemming from the growth in spending for Social Security and major health care programs," CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told a gathering in Washington on Tuesday.

The rising cost of those programs leaves Americans with "unpleasant" choices to make, but the sooner they're made, the better, he said:


   

So we have a choice as a society to either scale back those programs relative to what is promised under current law; or to raise tax revenue above its historical average to pay for the expansion of those programs; or to cut back on all other spending even more sharply than we already are," Elmendorf said.

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