CBO chief Doug Elmendorf testified before the Senate Budget Committee today and spoke words that will invariably come back to haunt Democrats. “In the legislation that has been reported we do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount,” Elmendorf told chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND). “On the contrary,” he said, “the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health-care costs.”
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