{"id":3193,"date":"2011-01-18T10:07:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2011-01-18T10:14:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:14:40","slug":"independent-analysis-debunks-false-gop-claims-about-health-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2011\/01\/independent-analysis-debunks-false-gop-claims-about-health-reform.html","title":{"rendered":"Independent analysis debunks false GOP claims about health reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Obama's signature on the health care reform bill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a group with a reputation for producing materials that are balanced, authoritative, and accessible to non-specialists, has released a study<\/a> of the claims central to the debate on repealing health reform that will reopen in the House this week. The short answer is that the CBO analysis is deemed accurate while Republican claims to the contrary are deemed inaccurate.<\/p>\n

At issue is the pending bill to repeal “job killing” health care reform, a bill who’s very name contains an accusation.\u00a0 Rep. Steve King (R-IA), a leading proponent of repeal, says<\/a> “This is the most important thing we can do, jobs and the economy have to follow through, but we can’t fix this economy unless we first repeal Obama care.”\u00a0 But is that true?<\/p>\n

Much of the rhetoric surrounding this debate has been quite partisan.\u00a0 Yet a surprising element in this round has been the claim by Speaker Boehner that the CBO analysis of the health care reform act’s financials was merely their “opinion,” and he implied that Democrats had forced CBO to produce misleading figures, saying that \u201cCBO can only provide a score based on the assumptions that were given to them.\u201d\u00a0 On that count, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says:<\/p>\n