As to the matter of how much it costs each family, that is not yet available because the circumstances vary enormously. Sometimes there might be a little bit of health care left over. In virtually all cases, there was none left over. The fact is the Joint Tax Committee, which looked at this in a rather conservative fashion, came out with a $179 million cost over a period of 10 years. I don't think the Senator from Oklahoma would challenge that.
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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.
This, I have to say without sentiment, will be the last Health Subcommittee hearing that I chair.
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