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But, of course, those numbers apply when Republicans offer the repeal of those health care bill cost constraints. Different debate. Not when they offer a total repeal as they are now. That's the issue on the floor this week and CBO says the cost is $230 Billion over the next decade.
The CBO has also said that the exact same bill would raise the deficit. The reason that they have offered conflicting views is because they only issue reports based on the assumptions that the politicians making the request order them to use for that particular request. I thought that this was explained pretty clearly.
In light of this, it seems a bit absurd to pick one of those numbers and pretend that it's somehow "the accurate one" simply because you're a Democrat and you like to believe things that sound good for Democrats. You're certainly entitled to do so, but I just don't understand why anyone would want to do that.