http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/07/11/fox-falsely-blames-administrations-tweaks-for-e/200079
A Fox News correspondent blamed the Obama administration's tweaks to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) announcement that it would no longer estimate the total cost of the law, and suggested that the changes may increase deficits. In fact, the CBO and budget experts explained that the CBO routinely stops providing budgetary estimates once a law is implemented, and that the CBO's estimate that the ACA would reduce the deficit remains correct.Fox News: Changes To Obamacare's Implementation Made CBO Estimates Impossible, May Create Deficits
Fox Correspondent: Changes To Implementation Caused CBO To End Scoring, Robbing Obamacare Of Revenue.
On the July 11 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier, correspondent Jim Angle blamed the Obama administration's "unilateral changes" in the implementation of the ACA for "the Congressional Budget Office recently sa[ying] it could no longer keep track of the spending." He also stoked fears that the changes in implementation "are robbing the system of revenues intended to pay the program" and suggested it would lead to a budget shortfall. [Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier, 7/11/14]
CBO And Experts Explain That Scoring Of Legislation Routinely Stops After Implementation As Law
CBO: Ending Scoring Of Legislation After It Becomes Law Is Not "Unique To The ACA," Has Nothing To Do With How Law Has Been Implemented.
On June 17, the CBO explained the difficulty it would have in continuing to estimate the budgetary effects of the ACA, insisting that the problem of creating such estimates "is by no means unique to the ACA, nor is it related to developments regarding the implementation of the ACA that have surprised CBO and JCT." The CBO further explained that "the problem is common to all legislation that changes existing federal programs or tax provisions with results that cannot be clearly distinguished from what would have occurred under previous law." [Congressional Budget Office, 6/17/14]with that debunking of Fox's assumption based misinformation we once more see there is no desire to report the truth, truths only favor Pres. and gives them nothing to rant about but that's not true they still will blame this admin for CBO regardless to it being now proven to be untrue, it's not only their nature to lie it appears to be part of their genetic make up, "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS".
