Sen. Perdue Issues Comments on Congressional Budget Office Score Of Senate Health Care Discussion Draft

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The office of Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., issued the following comments on the Congressional Budget Office's score for the Senate health care discussion draft:

"When the CBO scored Obamacare in 2010, it overshot its projection of how many people would gain insurance by more than 12 million people. It's clear the CBO cannot predict the purchasing patterns for millions of Americans.

"Just like the House CBO score earlier this year, this bureaucratic analysis will do nothing to prevent Obamacare from failing. In Georgia, 96 out of 159 counties have only one insurer within the Obamacare exchanges, leaving hundreds of thousands of Georgians with no competition to choose from for their health insurance.

"Nationwide, 40 percent of counties will only have one insurer to choose from in the exchange next year. The bottom line is, Obamacare isn't working and we have to act to put our health care system back on a solid foundation."