” CBO: “the long-term budgetary impact could be quite different if key provisions… were ultimately changed"

So what is the cost of Obamacare???  Enron economics...   Please defend these lies by Obama and the Democrats..  The full quote

http://thefederalist.com/2014/07/29/the-cbo-is-using-enron-style-accounting-on-obamacare/

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In its final cost estimate of Obamacare (released on March 20, 2010), under a section labeled "Key Considerations," the CBO cautioned that the legislation would "maintain and put into effect a number of policies that might be difficult to sustain over a long period of time." Thus, CBO asserted: "the long-term budgetary impact could be quite different if key provisions… were ultimately changed or not fully implemented" (emphasis added). Specifically, CBO mentioned the sustainable growth rate formula for paying doctors in Medicare that was not addressed in the bill, but—more importantly—here's what CBO said about Medicare payment rates for other health care providers:

"….the legislation includes a number of provisions that would constrain payment rates for other providers of Medicare services. In particular, increases in payment rates for many providers would be held below the rate of inflation (in expectation of ongoing productivity improvements in the delivery of health care). The projected longer-term savings for the legislation also reflect an assumption that the Independent Payment Advisory Board…would be fairly effective in reducing costs beyond the reductions that would be achieved by other aspects of the legislation."

Just the day before, CBO had released a sensitivity analysis (at Paul Ryan's request) that illustrated a similar point. Ryan asked what the budget impact of Obamacare would be in its second decade if several provisions were altered. Two of the four provisions he inquired about were IPAB and the additional indexing for exchange subsidies. In that analysis, CBO found that (emphasis added):

"If the changes described above were made to the legislation, CBO would expect that federal budget deficits during the decade beyond 2019 would increase relative to those projected under current law—with a total effect during that decade in a broad range around one-quarter percent of GDP."

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