NPR's Cornish ignored CBO's much lower estimate of health care bill's cost
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On August 25, NPR's Audie Cornish reported that the House Democrats' health care reform proposal “is estimated to cost a trillion dollars over the next 10 years,” without noting that the Congressional Budget Office has concluded that this cost would be largely offset by the savings and revenue increases in the bill. Taking these provisions into account, CBO estimated that the House bill would increase the deficit by $239 billion over 10 years, less than a quarter of the cost Cornish reported.