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Sen. Mike Lee: Make the CBO show its work

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Published August 4, 2017 4:01am ET
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Sen. Mike Lee: Make the CBO show its work
When we make our arguments about the costs and benefits of our preferred policies, we should at least be willing to explain how and why our policies would work. (Twitter)

When Democrats passed Obamacare on a party-line vote in March 2010, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that by 2016, 21 million people would receive health insurance through the law’s exchanges. In reality, just 10 million people did.

The CBO’s model was off by more than 100 percent.

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