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Congressional Budget Office Releases Report On Gop Health Care Bill

... as you say, the forecast from the CBO says the GOP plan would insure a lot fewer people than Obamacare does - 14 million fewer next year, 24 million fewer by 2026. Some of that would be voluntary. The GOP plan eliminates the tax penalty for not having insurance, so some people who were buying reluctantly just to avoid that penalty would stop doing so. House Speaker Paul Ryan says that's OK. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING). PAUL RYAN: They sort of overestimate the uninsured number, just like they overestimated who would be insured by Obamacare. But I do believe that if we're not going to force people to buy something they don't want to buy, they won't buy it. And that's kind of obvious. HORSLEY: Now, CBO also cautioned, though, that some people would stop buying insurance because they won't be able to afford it. Now, the government subsidies and the Republican plan are, on balance, less generous than in Obamacare, especially for the poor and older people. And finally, forecasters say we're ...

The Biggest Test Yet For 'trumpcare' Could Come Monday

... The change in the number of people with health insurance: The highlight of the report will most likely be the CBO's estimate of the number of people who would gain or lose coverage from the AHCA. The most likely adjustments will be due to the changes to the structure of tax credits for people to buy insurance under the new law and its changes in funding for Medicaid expansion. S&P estimated that 6 million to 10 million people would lose coverage under the AHCA, while the Brookings Institution projected up to 15 million. The impact on the federal deficit: One of the complaints of conservative Republicans positioning themselves against the AHCA is that the tax credits and other funding, combined with the repeal of Obamacare's taxes, would cause the federal deficit to increase. Cost of premiums: The second-most-expensive silver-level plan was used by the CBO to project premium growth under the ACA. In fact, despite large jumps over the past year, average premiums for 2017 ...

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Congressional Budget Office Delves Into Gop Health Plan's Cost

... bit of that. He's betting that, ultimately, costs for health insurance under this plan will go down. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING). TOM PRICE: I firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially in the process that we're going through, understanding that they'll have choices that they can select the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their family, not the government forces them to buy. INSKEEP: Is this true, that people are going to be assured of better, cheaper plans so they won't need as much subsidies. LIASSON: Well, that's certainly what Price hopes. This sounds a little bit like Barack Obama saying you can keep your plan; you can keep your doctor. Some people are going to have to pay more. Some people will get less. Price also said that success is defined as, quote, "more people ...

Cbo Analysis Expected To Show Higher Costs, Less Coverage Under Pres. Trump’s Health Care Plan

... imploding. It is a disaster and 2017 will be the worst year yet, by far!” he tweeted. The GOP legislation would eliminate the current mandate that nearly all people in the United States carry insurance or face fines. It would use tax credits to help consumers buy health coverage, expand health savings accounts, phase out an expansion of Medicaid and cap that program for the future, end some requirements for health plans under Obama’s law, and scrap a number of taxes. During the presidential campaign and as recently as January, Trump repeatedly stressed his support for universal health coverage, saying his plan to replace the Affordable Care Act would provide “insurance for everybody.”. On Sunday, his aides took pains to explain that a CBO finding of fewer people covered would not necessarily mean that fewer people will be covered. “If the CBO was right about Obamacare to begin with, there’d be 8 million more people on Obamacare today than there actually are,” said Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, disputing the accuracy of CBO data. “Sometimes we ask them to do stuff they’re not ...

First Read's Morning Clips

... are bracing for a tough CBO score, the AP notes. Dante Chinni and Sally Bronston look at why the House GOP health care bill would hit Trump voters particularly hard. "Ohio Gov. John Kasich argued Sunday that Republicans and Democrats should work together to improve health care legislation, criticizing the current House GOP health care bill while predicting that President Donald Trump "would be flexible" on the issue," writes NBC's Kailani Koenig. Worth noting, from the Washington Post : "Trump said no Americans would lose coverage under Obamacare repeal. Paul Ryan won't make that promise.". "U. S. Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican who last July said white Christians have contributed more to Western civilization than any other "subgroup," on Sunday found himself again the subject of criticism, this time for saying that Muslim children are preventing "our civilization" from being restored," writes the Des Moines Register. "King, who was ...

Here’s What You Need To Know About The Congressional Budget Office

... counterweight to the Office of Management and Budget, which is part of a Democratic or Republican White House. Get Todays Headlines in your inbox. Sign Up. Thank you for signing up! Sign up for more newsletters here. Trump administration officials and some congressional Republicans preemptively criticized CBO ahead of its assessment of the cost and coverage in the Republican replacement to the Affordable Care Act. What you need to know about the CBO. RESPECTED, NOT INFALLIBLE. CBO is respected for the nonpartisan rigor its 200-plus employees put into the 600 or so official cost estimates it performs each year — and the thousands of informal estimates it provides as committees draft legislation. But it’s hardly infallible, especially when considering large, complex and far-ranging legislation like the Affordable Care Act. The agency’s estimates, for instance, significantly overstated the number of people who would buy insurance on state and federal exchanges under the law, in part because it thought the individual mandate and accompanying tax penalties would be more effective in forcing people to buy insurance. ‘Predicting the effects of large policy changes is ...

Cbo Confirms Trump And Hillary The Same, Basically

... that Trump’s allegation was anything but a conspiracy theory, perhaps picked up from a right-wing website. If there is proof, Trump seems to be the only person to have it.” [ Huff Post ]. TRUMP TO CALL FOR RADICAL CUTS IN FEDERAL WORKFORCE - But the Trump steak each bureaucrat will get will more than make up for the social collapse. Damian Paletta:  “President Trump’s budget proposal this week would shake the federal government to its core if enacted, culling back numerous programs and expediting a historic contraction of the federal workforce. This would be the first time the government has executed cuts of this magnitude — and all at once — since the drawdown following World War II, economists and budget analysts said. The spending budget Trump is set to release Thursday will offer the clearest snapshot of his vision for the size and role ...

White House Attacks On Cbo Could Set Up Months Of Brawling

... Budget Office Director Keith Hall in an April 1, 2011, photo. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP). Anticipating that the CBO head would get major blowback after releasing his assessment, Hoagland said he sent an email Monday morning to Director Keith Hall, telling him “he was doing the job he was supposed to do and not take anything personal in terms of criticism.”. Hall, a conservative economist, responded to the email, Hoagland said, writing that “he was doing the job he’s paid to do.”. The CBO declined to comment for this report. The entity’s analysis will be crucial for some of the Trump administration’s more-controversial proposals this year, and it could repeatedly issue assessments that run counter to what the White House thinks. Its analysis, for example, of the White House’s proposed tax cut plan could find that large reductions in corporate or individual tax rates could lead to a big spike in the deficit. It could also issue a report about the economic impact of building a wall along the U. S.-Mexico border. ...

Republicans Brace For Cbo Report Of Health Care Coverage

... 10-year scoring window for the bill. Ohio Gov. John Kasich - who has been critical of the bid to narrow the Medicaid expansion that he fears could impact 700,000 people in his state - tried to refocus the debate on Sunday. "All of this consumption with who gains politically. You know, life is short. And if all you focus in life is what's in it for me, you're a loser. You are a big-time loser," Kasich said on NBC's "Meet the Press.". "And this country better be careful we're not losing the soul of our country because we play politics and we forget people who are in need," he added. Movement continues in House. The political tempest likely to be unleashed by the CBO report will further obscure the progress made by Republicans last week, when their bill passed two key House committees after marathon hearings. It will also fuel the controversy over the pace with which GOP ...

Defunding Planned Parenthood Would Lead To Thousands More Births

... plan to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for federal funding would leave many women without services to help them avoid pregnancy, resulting in thousands of additional births, according to a new federal budget analysis. The prediction came Monday as part of a much-awaited analysis  from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which assesses the fiscal impact of major legislative bills. It was part of a more sweeping look at a congressional health care bill that would repeal and replace the law known as Obamacare. [ Affordable Care Act revision would reduce insured numbers by 24 million, CBO projects ]. The analysts estimated that excluding the women’s health organization from the Medicaid program for one year, as congressional Republicans have proposed, would particularly affect low-income areas and communities without many health care options, leaving 15 percent of those people “without services that help women avert pregnancy.”. Planned Parenthood provides reproductive and other services, including abortion, to 2.5 million men and women nationally. The reduction in ...

Trump Administration 'strenuously' Disagrees With Cbo Report

... by 2026 but reduce the federal deficit by $337 billion in the same span. Story Continued Below. “We disagree strenuously with the report that was put out,” Price told reporters after leaving a Cabinet meeting with Trump. “We believe that our plan will cover more individuals at a lower cost and give them the choices that they want for the coverage that they want for themselves and for their families, not that the government forces them to buy.”. Price, who addressed reporters alongside Office of Budget and Management Director Mick Mulvaney, argued that people should compare the CBO projection to what’s actually happening with Obamacare. By Rachana Pradhan , Jennifer Haberkorn and Sarah Ferris. “It’s about the coverage — the health coverage — that they have but the health care that they receive,” Price said. “And the fact of the matter is that right now, current law, we’ve got individuals who have health coverage but no health care. And it’s incredibly important to appreciate that. ...