Claim: The Congressional Budget Office "has already doubled its estimate for the cost  so far from roughly $800 billion to $1.7 trillion."
Fact-check: R.I. congressional candidate Michael Riley says the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of the cost of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has doubled
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2012-08-02T00:00:00