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August 7, 2017 7:17 pm  #1


I wasn't aware of this

Hmmm.  The numbers for repeal didn't quite cut the mustard.

Conservative Republicans and the Trump White House were apoplectic when CBO delivered the bad news on their various proposals to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. The agency predicted that the proposals would cause tens of millions of people to join the ranks of the uninsured. CBO’s headline-grabbing estimates were a major factor in ginning up massive opposition to the health care bills.The reasonable reaction to the bad numbers would have been to retool the proposals. But politics is far from reasonable these days. Instead, the White House released an ad and an op-ed insisting that CBO’s numbers were wrong, a claim not bolstered by the fact that the ad misspelled the word, “inaccurate.” Fact-checkers soon questioned the administration’s other challenges to the agency’s estimates, adding context and defending CBO’s prediction about the number of uninsured.

https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/08/06/conservatives-dont-want-know-cost-health-care-repeal/


A government which robs Peter to
pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
 

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