CBO Score of Senate Health Bill Is Grim — But Gives McConnell Wiggle Room (487 hits)

CBO Score of Senate Health Bill Is Grim — But Gives McConnell Wiggle Room
By Ed Kilgore


The Congressional Budget Office’s official “score” of the Senate GOP’s Better Care Reconciliation Act came out this afternoon, and it contained largely bad news for the bill’s sponsors — though with some significant opportunities for improvements before the bill actually hits the Senate floor.

The big bad number most often cited in criticisms of the House-passed legislation did not get a lot better. The House’s American Health Care Act was expected to cost 23 million Americans health coverage by the end of ten years. CBO estimates that BCRA will lower than terrible number by just one million. So Republican senators like Susan Collins and Dean Heller who said they could not vote for a bill that would deny “tens of millions of Americans” health coverage have no particular reason to prefer this bill more than its “mean” House counterpart.

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Wednesday, August 9th 2017 at 9:22AM
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