CBO Score for Health Care Bill Coming This Week

[DonViejo]

CBO Score for Health Care Bill Coming This Week

March 13, 2017 By Taegan Goddard

Playbook: The Congressional Budget Office is set to release its ‘score’ — the fiscal and practical impact — of the Republican health-care bill today or tomorrow and it’s not expected to be pretty. The White House has been bashing the CBO, saying it frequently misses the mark, but it will be critical data for lawmakers on Capitol Hill as they consider how to vote. A budget-busting number could thwart the bill’s chances, or at least prolong this process.”

The Hill: “As the healthcare world anticipates the cost estimate of the controversial legislation by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary may also be putting its own price tag on the measure. The CBO is Congress’s official scorekeeper, but if CMS puts out a similar analysis, it could help shield the non-partisan CBO from criticism.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/03/13/cbo-score-health-care-bill-coming-week/

[Cary]

1. I see, and this White House has a better track record for accuracy?

Will the CBO score Trump's profiteering and opportunitism with Russian oligsrchs?

[vlyons]

2. Republican probable responses

1. It doesn't matter, the CBO lies all the time.

2. CBO analysis was written by Obama plants, pledged to destroy the Trump administration.

3. Killing medicare for lazy poor people is the moral thing to do to give them "freedom."

4. Killing people by denying healthcare will help lower the national debt.

5. Well even if it covers fewer people, those without insurance can always go to the ER.

I'm sure you can add some more