"Budget scoring rules make it impossible," he said.
BBC4, the TV channel with the lowest budget, scores highest for audience appreciation and "fresh and new" ratings, said the trust.
Some of the Republicans' criticisms are based on the longstanding budget scoring rules and conventions, like measuring the financial effects of legislation in a limited 10-year window.
Because the Congressional Budget Office's forecast was also too optimistic, the official budget scoring would have assumed that the provisions would have been unlikely to take effect.
This means that senators, typically members of the minority party, can hold up adoption of the budget, scoring points with voters by offering amendments on everything from health care to education.
The Democrats said that normal budget scoring rules simply cannot account for many improvements in the way health care will be practiced and delivered in response to the law.
So instead of changing his policies to reflect reality and serve the interests of working families, Ryan helped change the budget scoring rules to reflect his ideology and serve his political funders in Corporate America.
I asked whether this dynamic scoring model would recognize that, according to a well-respected study, spending on Medicaid for kids increases tax revenues down the road and thus should be scored as costing less than it would under traditional budget scoring methods, just as the GOP wants to do with its tax proposals.
The Congressional Budget Office's scored the proposal's net cost at a staggering $1 trillion over its standard 10-year budget-scoring window through 2019.
Still, proponents of the Affordable Care Act hope that its cost-reducing provisions will be more effective than expected by the Congressional Budget Office, and thus the fiscal outcome will be to save money rather than the roughly budget-neutral score estimated by the budget office if the provisions of the law are put in place.
