Budget office: Obama's health law reduces deficit

The CBO gave no updated estimate for deficit reductions from the law, approved by Congress and signed by Obama in 2010. But it did estimate that Republican legislation to repeal the overhaul — passed recently by the House — would itself increase the deficit by $109 billion from 2013 to 2022.

By: By Andrew Taylor and Ricardo Alonzo-Zaldivar, Associated Press, Superior Telegram