CBO: Defunding Reform To Add to Long-Term Deficit
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis finding that blocking implementation funding for the federal health reform law would cut the deficit by $1.4 billion for the rest of the fiscal year but would add $5.7 billion over the course of 10 years. CBO said its analysis includes figures that are "highly uncertain" because they depend on how the Obama administration would interpret defunding provisions in the fiscal 2011 spending bill.
- "CBO: Defunding Health Reform Boosts Deficit" (Millman, "Healthwatch," The Hill, 3/10).