With House Republicans just a day away from once more voting to try to repeal President Obama's health reform law, congressional budget analysts suggested Wednesday that repealing the law would increase the deficit.
In a letter to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf said the CBO is unable to quickly provide a cost estimate for repeal of the law, per Republicans' request.
"Preparing a new estimate of the budgetary impact of repealing the Affordable Care Act would take considerable time — probably several weeks — for CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, because there are hundreds of provisions in the ACA and those provisions are already in various stages of implementation," Elmendorf wrote.
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