… to me, that seems to me to be a hard argument to beat if you're a small government conservative. It's a fiction. They game the CBO numbers in terms of The CBO is forced to score what the administration, what Congress gives them to score. Just take a look at history though. I'm beginning to actually look at the reality of real numbers. Back when they first started Medicare, they projected up 25 years and said it would cost $12 billion. (08:40–08:46)
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