Senate Republicans are Considering Alternative Scoring for Cruz Amendment Instead of Waiting for CB

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Source: ijr.com



8 hours ago


............Republicans are considering using alternative scoring methods for a version of Sen. Ted Cruz's Consumer Freedom Option in order to proceed with their health care push next week rather than waiting for the Congressional Budget Office's assessment, a Republican Senate aide told Independent Journal Review Thursday morning.

The proposal, to get the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to score a version of the Texas Republican's amendment — which would scrap Affordable Care Act regulations for insurers who continue to offer health care plans that comply with the rules — has been floated during negotiations but not agreed to yet, the source said.
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Why are Republicans looking elsewhere for a score? Because insiders expect the CBO score of Cruz's proposal to take several weeks to complete, and the amendment language was only officially sent to CBO earlier this week.

The math just doesn't work out, causing a dilemma for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who hopes to vote on the Better Care Reconciliation Act next week.

The HHS score would speed up that timeline, but whether the score would comply with reconciliation rules, or if it would simply be symbolic — allowing Republicans to work around the parliamentarian to vote on a bill including the Cruz proposal without a CBO score — is uncertain...............

Read more: http://ijr.com/2017/07/919440-senate-republicans-considering-alternative-scoring-cruz-amendment-instead-waiting-cbo/

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Republicans always hit on the CBO score.


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Update: John Thune just confirmed this story we broke this morning. Huge implications for reconciliation procedure.



Haley Byrd‏Verified account @byrdinator

News: Republicans are considering getting HHS to score Cruz's health care amendment because CBO will take too long:


Haley Byrd‏Verified account @byrdinator 8h8 hours ago
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This hasn't been done before. Here's how a GOP Senate aide told @TheIJR it would work: http://ijr.com/2017/07/919440-senate-republicans-considering-alternative-scoring-cruz-amendment-instead-waiting-cbo/ …

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Haley Byrd‏Verified account @byrdinator 7h7 hours ago

Why it's significant: Republicans would be using a partisan score, rather than the nonpartisan CBO analysis

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Shockratees‏ @ThatShockratees 7h7 hours ago
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No, they're considering it because HHS is controlled by GOP who will falsify the numbers and commit fraud, rather than honest CBO analysis.
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Shockratees‏ @ThatShockratees 7h7 hours ago

Remember the $2,000,000,000,000 "error" in Trump's budget? McConnell's trying to get fake "analysis" the same way.

[Honeycombe8]

1. A FAKE score to fool the stupid or uninformed! Heard they might do this.

Doesn't fool me. The CBO score will come out sooner or later, and we'll know. Wonder if some Senators will use the FAKE score as an excuse to vote for it.

[MosheFeingold]

2. This is stupid

Of course, the Cruz Amendment would save money, both private (cheaper rates for those who select cheap policies) and public (in that there are less subsidies) -- but at the cost of unduly raising rates for those people who do not currently have insurance or let insurance lapse.

The whole point of the ACA was to subsidize people.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. students will grade their own test...?? oh, that will give an accurate answer...

[riversedge]

4. GOP leaders keep saying they'll have an updated CBO score on Monday, but... the Cruz amendment won'

Haley Byrd‏Verified account @byrdinator

GOP leaders keep saying they'll have an updated CBO score on Monday, but... the Cruz amendment won't be scored yet.

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[pangaia]

11. It's TREMENDOUS MATH, GREAT MATH

[C_U_L8R]

5. I gotta score for you Republicans

Zero. Zilch. Zip.

[Solly Mack]

6. SMH

No point in wondering if they have any shame. They don't.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. They have the power to kill poor people and minorities, they WILL do it, eventually.

This is what happens when people say the parties are the same.

People die.

[sandensea]

8. Nobody does alternative facts like the GOP does.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Bunch of liars, cheaters, and thugs. nt

[pangaia]

10. "Alternative" scoring..

jesus on a stick, give me a break



Come on Mueller. get on with it.. :&gt )))

[Lucky Luciano]

12. Alternative scoring/facts/right. Alt is not so cool.