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Ron Johnson: “Well, I worked with former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin in trying to look at the numbers that are presented, and we…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2012
Well, I worked with former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin in trying to look at the numbers that are presented, and we don't have enough. We don't have enough information, which is why I am grateful for the fact that Director Elmendorf recognized that there is some credible evidence to cause the CBO to reassess that estimate of 1 million people. So they are working through those numbers right now. Hopefully, they will give us a very full accounting of that in the next couple of weeks. But the work I did with Douglas Holtz-Eakin showed that if 90 million get put in those exchanges, it could cost over $400 billion a year.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin
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Mar 12, 2012

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