December 16, 2009 7:43AM # ObamaCare Cost Estimate Watch: Day #180 By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) --- SHARE On Day #179 of the ObamaCare Cost Estimate Watch, Sen. Jim Webb (D‑Va.) [wrote](http://www.winchesterstar.com/pages/view/still.html) in *The Winchester Star* of his involvement in the Senate health care debate: > At the start of this debate I was one of eight senators who called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to post the text and complete budget scores of the health-care bill on a public web site for review at least 72 hours prior to both the first vote and final passage. This request was agreed to, affording proper transparency in the process. On the contrary, as I explain in this *Richmond Times-Dispatch* [oped](http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/opinion/commentary/article/ED-CANN13_20091211-205402/311002/), Reid did not comply with Webb’s request. Indeed, a [memo](https://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/107xx/doc10731/MLR_and_budgetary_treatment.pdf) recently issued by the Congressional Budget Office suggests that Reid has been working very hard to conceal the legislation’s full cost all along. ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).