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ABC's White House correspondent Jake Tapper filed the sole report on Thursday's newscasts about the warning by the Congressional Budget Office that proposed healthcare reform legislation would not cut costs. Now Chip Reid, CBS' man at the White House, follows up with a yet more extreme take on the CBO study. He reported that the CBO found that the proposals "would send spending on healthcare soaring." Contrary to Barack Obama's insistence that "reform will bend the longterm cost curve downward," CBS' Reid claimed that the CBO predicted "that the cost curve will go up." From Capitol Hill, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell had the same take-home from the CBO analysis: "The plans would increase spending not reduce it."
ABC's Tapper was specific that the CBO was not referring to the nation's healthcare costs but just to its federal portion. Neither CBS' Reid nor NBC's O'Donnell was so clear. When they warned of healthcare cost inflation it was not clear whether they envisaged an overall spending increase or a growing government plan--or both.
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