White House launches preemptive strike on CBO, anticipating report on health care bill
Source: Yahoo News
Awaiting a new Congressional Budget Office score on the latest rewrite of the Republican health care bill expected next week, the White House has launched an attack on the nonpartisan group.
In a video published to its social media accounts, the White House claims that the CBO uses faulty numbers. It disputed projections that 22 million more Americans would be without health insurance by 2026, compared with keeping Obamacare. The video came in conjunction with a press release citing critiques of the CBO from the Council of Economic Advisers, a group of political appointees.
The White House deleted and then reposted the video after initially misspelling the word “inaccurately” in its story about the importance of accuracy. The video was then retweeted on the @POTUS account.
As the White House video states, CBO projections for coverage under Obamacare were wrong, in part because the agency didn’t foresee a Supreme Court ruling allowing states to opt out of the Medicaid expansion in the bill. The agency also forecast that more employers would drop their own health insurance plans than actually did. After the Supreme Court ruling, which led to 19 states dropping the Medicaid expansion, the office’s revised prediction projected that 89 percent of Americans below age 65 would have insurance in 2016. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number was 89.7 percent.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-launches-pre-emptive-strike-cbo-anticipating-report-health-care-bill-195845596.html
Misspelling "inaccurately" really helps your argument that the CBO's numbers are inaccurate.
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