Rand Paul: CBO Report Is Like ‘Astrology’

EXCERPT:

PAUL: "Trying to predict the future is a very uncertain sort of guessing game. And I think in the past the CBO tried to guess how many people would get health insurance through ObamaCare and they were wildly off to the tune of millions off. Now they’ve said like, you know, 32 million, 23 million, various permutations of millions of people will lose it. But interestingly, one of the big premises of why people lose it is they say, if you no longer have the individual mandate, if you don’t have to pay a tax to buy your insurance, if you’re not sort of bullied by government, 15 million people wouldn’t buy insurance for that one fact. Maybe. It’s complete guesswork. And so the thing is is that I think we can put too much stock in guesswork. And to me, it’s modeling and future predictions, it's like astrology, a lot of guesswork goes involved into it."