claim: "the congressional budget office most recently came out and analyzed the current (health care) plan and said that it was not only deficit-neutral, but also that over 10 years it would create a $6 billion surplus."
author: russ carnahan
evidence_1: sep 28, 2012 ... we're also told that obama meant 12 percent, not 10 percent, and that 12 percent  figure does not represent a percentage of cumulative deficits ($6 ... is the  difference between the congressional budget office's rosy 10-year budget  projection issued in january 2001 ($5.9 trillion in cumulative surpluses from ...
evidence_2: jul 3, 2017 ... including just the effects of economic feedback from deficit reduction would  reduce the cumulative defi- cit over the next 10 years by roughly $160 billion—or  about 0.1 percent of gdp, on average—compared with. cbo and jct's  conventional estimate of the president's proposals. in 2027, debt held by the ...
evidence_3: feb 7, 2014 ... affordable care act (public law 111-148), the health care provisions of the  health care and ... (cbo) estimates that under current law, the deficit will ..... 1  percentage point of gdp over the next 10 years—from. 17.5 percent in 2014 to  18.4 percent in 2024. but out- lays are projected to rise twice as much, ...
evidence_4: apr 6, 2017 ... during the hearing, but not with respect to any specific legislative proposal. as  you are aware,. cbo has prepared a number of estimates of the budgetary  effects of h.r. 3762, the. restoring americans' healthcare freedom  reconciliation act of 2015. in cbo's most recent cost estimate of that legislation ...
evidence_5: mar 9, 2016 ... last year, congressional republicans adopted a budget calling for nearly $5  trillion of cuts in domestic programs over ten years, with about two-thirds of those  ... by ruling out any deficit reduction from revenues, republican budgets leave  untouched the more than $1 trillion a year in tax expenditures — tax ...