Camp Requests CBO Score of Healthcare Proposals

Camp Requests CBO Score of Healthcare Proposals

The following press release was published by the U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means on June 11, 2009. It is reproduced in full below.

Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement after requesting the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) review the initiatives of five major health care trade associations and one labor union to determine the level of savings each of these proposals would yield to the federal government:

“Perhaps the most difficult issue in the health reform debate is deciding how to pay for it. Hopefully, the CBO can tell us whether these proposals save enough money to help offset the high cost of health reform."

Source: U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means

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