The GOP's rude awakening on health-care repeal

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Author(s)	Eugene Robinson
Source	The Washington Post
Date	January 21, 2011
URL	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/20/AR2011012003890.html
Quote	The CBO, which "scores" the impact of proposed legislation, calculated that the health-reform law will reduce federal deficits by at least $143 billion through 2019. Confronted with the fact that repeal would deepen the nation's fiscal woes, Republicans simply claimed the CBO estimate to be rubbish. Who cares what the CBO says, anyway? Er, um, Republicans care, at least when it's convenient. Delving into the CBO's analysis, they unearthed a finding that they proclaimed as definitive: The reform law would eliminate 650,000 jobs. Hence "Job-Killing" in the repeal bill's title.

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This item argues against the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.