Fake Plan, Real Score

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| Thu Nov. 5, 2009 9:27 AM PST

House Republicans released a "healthcare plan" of their own yesterday, but I didn't bother blogging about it because it pretty transparently wasn't a real plan at all.  It was just a few thousand words of miscellaneous text designed to stop people from saying that Republicans don't have a plan.

Still, it has to be kind of embarassing to send if off to the CBO for scoring and have this come back.  Glurk.

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