The CBO Wants to Discuss Healthcare and the Deficit?

The CBO Wants to Discuss Healthcare and the Deficit?
(from run75411)

Someone struck a nerve, “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much: CBO Director Asks for A Chat . . .”. Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism received an interesting email after a voice mail from the Associate Director of Communications for the CBO:

Greetings, Susan.

I am following up on my voicemail to see if we can arrange a time either today or sometime this week for you to speak with our director, Doug Elmendorf. He wanted to speak with you about your blog post “Fed Budgetary Experts Demolish CBO Health Models, the Lynch Pin of Budget Hysteria” that appeared Sunday on Naked Capitalism regarding CBO.

I am copying Brianne Hutchinson, Doug’s executive assistant, who will work with you to find a convenient time for the call. You can reach Brianne by e-mail or directly at: 202-226-2700.
We look forward to hearing back from you at your convenience.

Kind regards,
Deborah
Deborah Kilroe
Associate Director for Communications
Congressional Budget Office
2nd and D Streets, SW
Washington, DC 20515


Recently, Dan posted some of my earlier conversation with Yves and other participants on her post’s thread “Healthcare Spending Growth in the US” at Naked Capitalism . Yves’s post pointed to a recent paper completed by Glen Follette and Louise Sheiner examining and challenging the CBO analysis of healthcare costs as a percentage of GDP An Examination of Health-Spending Growth in the US. Simplified, what the study is found Healthcare growth as a percentage of GDP is sustainable at 1% which is precisely what Obama and even Romney used in their limiting factor for healthcare costs.

Read more at   Health spending growth in the US  at Angry Bear.