CBO: We can't give the NEWEST version of obamacare a score (Congress, health care)

[sanrene]

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Moreover, preparing a cost estimate requires very detailed specifications of numerous provisions, and the materials that were released this morning do not provide sufficient detail on all of the provisions. Therefore, CBO cannot provide a cost estimate for the proposal without additional detail, and, even if such detail were provided, analyzing the proposal would be a time-consuming process that could not be completed this week.

Well, we already know the newest disaster is at least $1 Trillion (what happened to that pledge of under $900 billion).

This is basically the same boondoggle, with all the backroom deals, payoffs to the unions and partnership with Big Pharma.

[kovert]

Oh, sanrene, in the spirit of accuracy, the HR bills that Congress, and not the Obama administration, first wrote was the modeled after one of the top GOP candidates aptly dubbed RomneyCare.

This is plan just released by the Obama administration can accurately be dubbed ObamaCare proper, though it is reported to take much after the Senate version.

The CBO will come out with a report soon enough. And lets refresh our memory on the previous CBO analysis of the Congressional bills.

Originally Posted by kovert

Glad you mention the CBO sanrene, but as usual you seem to have quite a selective memory when it comes to reports.
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"The big long-term national debt problem is all about health care. This chart is from the January 2008 Budget and Economic Outlook of the Congressional Budget Office–for those keeping score, that’s one year before President Obama took office. It shows projected federal spending as a percentage of GDP.

The health care bills now passed by both houses include, at the urging of Orszag and the administration, the most serious proposals ever put forward in Congress to curb the long-term growth of health care costs. In other words, no administration in the last few decades has tried as hard as this one to solve our nation’s main long-term fiscal problem (although they bungled their management of the financial crisis and financial reform).

And what do they get for their efforts? Popular backlash against “big government” and “deficits” and Scott Brown in the Senate (although Martha Coakley had a lot to do with the latter). If politicians were actually serious about deficits, they would vote for health care reform 100-0 in the Senate. And pigs would fly."
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[ovcatto]

Makes me miss Kooter and his birther threads.

This morning the Obama Administration released a description of its health care proposal, and CBO has already received several requests to provide a cost estimate for that proposal. We had not previously received the proposal, and we have just begun the process of reviewing it—a process that will take some time, given the complexity of the issues involved. Although the proposal reflects many elements that were included in the health care bills passed by the House and the Senate last year, it modifies many of those elements and also includes new ones. Moreover, preparing a cost estimate requires very detailed specifications of numerous provisions, and the materials that were released this morning do not provide sufficient detail on all of the provisions. Therefore, CBO cannot provide a cost estimate for the proposal without additional detail, and, even if such detail were provided, analyzing the proposal would be a time-consuming process that could not be completed this week.

[MainelyJersey]

The fact the CBO doesn't have time to score it won't stop Obama from saying "deficit-neutral" and "reduces cost" during this week's infomercial.

[DRob4JC]

Originally Posted by kovert

Oh, sanrene, in the spirit of accuracy, the HR bills that Congress, and not the Obama administration, first wrote was the modeled after one of the top GOP candidates aptly dubbed RomneyCare.

Doesn't matter - this is no good. Throw it out. Do not bring it up again. Remove government from the existing sphere of health care.

[blackandproud]

Originally Posted by ovcatto

Makes me miss Kooter and his birther threads.

This morning the Obama Administration released a description of its health care proposal, and CBO has already received several requests to provide a cost estimate for that proposal. We had not previously received the proposal, and we have just begun the process of reviewing it—a process that will take some time, given the complexity of the issues involved. Although the proposal reflects many elements that were included in the health care bills passed by the House and the Senate last year, it modifies many of those elements and also includes new ones. Moreover, preparing a cost estimate requires very detailed specifications of numerous provisions, and the materials that were released this morning do not provide sufficient detail on all of the provisions. Therefore, CBO cannot provide a cost estimate for the proposal without additional detail, and, even if such detail were provided, analyzing the proposal would be a time-consuming process that could not be completed this week.

THATS HIS NAME..Thanks Ov, i've been trying for the longest to remember.

[sanrene]

Just like obama to send a monstrous boondoggle of a disaster up to the CBO without enough detail to properly score it - maybe intentional, considering the dog & pony show on Thursday.

[ovcatto]

Rewind and repeat...