Early CBO Score on Public Plan?
WOW very interesting!
TNR-A lot of conservative Democrats, not to mention Republicans, express two big concerns about health reform. They’re worried that reform will cost too much. And they don’t want a government-run insurance plan.
It’s about to get a lot harder to make those two arguments simultaneously.
According to a pair of Capitol Hill sources, preliminary estimates from the Congressional Budget Office suggest that a strong public option–the kind that the House of Representatives is putting in its reform bill–should net somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 billion in savings over ten years.
The sources cautioned that these were only the preliminary estimates, based on previous discussions–that CBO had not yet issued final scoring on language in the actual bill. But the sources felt the final estimate would likely be close
John,
Are you in favor of a government (using the word ‘public’ makes it sound so good but it’s BS just like ‘public schools’!) health plan now that the dem controlled CBO says it will be OK?
How many years was it that I used CBO data to show GOPers to be the party of Tax-and-Spend?
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And, how many years was it that I was told my source was no good?
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Nice to see that some people are finally coming around to using data in their arguments.