Just as a follow-up to the question of funding which was addressed, CBO actually has come out with an estimate on what all of this would cost. It is not $20 billion; it is in the area of zero up to $10 billion over that period of 4 years.
Rockefeller clarifies the estimated costs of a program, emphasizing the importance of accurate information.
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This, I have to say without sentiment, will be the last Health Subcommittee hearing that I chair.
This is a good bill. It has helped. It has done even what the Affordable Care Act has not been able to do.
I say to myself, why is it that they are so resistant to making some basic changes on things which are so obviously going to come back to haunt them?
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