CBO Lays Down Key Ground Rules For Scoring Obamacare Replacement Plans
Source: Talking Points Memo
By TIERNEY SNEED Published DECEMBER 20, 2016, 5:30 PM EDT
The Congressional Budget Office laid out some important ground rules in a blog post Tuesday for how it will judge whatever Obamacare replacement plans lawmakers eventually offer if they repeal the Affordable Care Act next year. The CBO said it would not be giving any proposals credit for covering consumers unless the plans that consumers would be receiving met certain broad standards for coverage.
The post comes as GOP lawmakers are readying their push to repeal Obamacare early next year, but with a two- to four-year delay that they say would give them enough time to settle on a replacement. Over the six-plus years since the ACA was passed, Republicans have struggled to develop consensus around an alternative, in part because of deep disagreements within the party over the government's role in the health care industry and whether universal coverage should be a goal.
The CBO blog post adds a new wrinkle to the debate, by making clear that lawmakers won't be able to claim that they will protect the millions of people that stand to lose insurance with an Obamacare repeal if the coverage that comes with their ACA replacement is significantly less generous or wide-ranging.
"Two key questions for policymakers in developing such proposals are what type of insurance products would qualify for tax credits and what role states would have in making that determination," the CBO said.
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groundloop
(11,518 posts)mobeau69
(11,144 posts)did these bastards come up with the idea of repeal now and keep it in force for 3 or 4 more years until they can come up with a "replacement"? LOL. I never heard about this until after the election. Did anyone ever spout this bullshit at any time during the last 6 years? I never heard it. Obviously, it's a joke on its face. How fucking stupid do they think we are? Not Trumplethinskins, the rest of us! The majority that didn't vote for The Most Dangerous Clown.
Very good article and there are some very good comments there. Thanks.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)of Democrats this way; it's comparable to them threatening to shut down the whole government if they don't get the budget deal they want.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)They hope to win Trump a re-election before all the shit really hits the fan and Trump's republican knuckle dragging supporters realize just how fucked they are.
maxrandb
(15,326 posts)NO, they KNOW how fucking stupid the American electorate is!!!
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