The White House acknowledged that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) was right and that the federal government’s budget deficit will indeed surpass $9 trillion over the next ten years.
The director of federal fiscal policy at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities says it should be a reminder that people in government make mistakes.
?The first thing you learn in doing these projections is to be very humble,? said James Horney, director of federal fiscal policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. ?You know they?re going to be wrong and you know they?re going to be wrong by huge dollar amounts.?
Horney and CBPP, in all humility, still says a massive overhaul of every aspect of health care is the best way to get the deficit under control. Maybe some humility would suggest that the federal government get costs under control in Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA system first before taking on the private half of health care.
Might I suggest reading Jon Sanders’ recent call for humility instead?
