The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has a nice 350+ page summary of what they did estimated and evaluated in the policy development process for what eventually became the ACA/PPACA.
It was an iterative process. And these are just major milestones. There were calls for frequent CBO advisory scores and holding delays of 72 hours for CBO analysis to be digested by the Senate.
Just keep this in mind as the current bill is sitting under lock and key in a Capital Hill basement somewhere.
Open Thread
Baud
Wasn’t there a right wing meme about Pelosi saying people would have to wait to read the bill?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: And it was like 30 million pages.
Major Major Major Major
In lighter news, I Instagrammed a picture of my cat.
mai naem mobile
@Baud: she did say it but of course context is everything. To me she was saying you don’t know what’s going to happen until the law is in effect. You have a lot of smart people who you think have thought every scenario through but it’s a massively complicated law and there will undoubtedly be unintended consequences. I’ve never understood this RW thing about stuff having to be simple and super short. Jeezus, if you have surgery the surgeon alone writes several pages of notes . Why do they expect a tax return to be postcard sized and a big Healthcare law be one page?
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: They used big font.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: You should be an evil mastermind with a cat like that.
Baud
@mai naem mobile: I never gave it any credence. It’s all projection with them.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: he does enjoy sitting on my lap and being petted.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Who wouldn’t?
amk
@mai naem mobile:
which the shitheads haven’t managed to do in the last 8 years.
Roger Moore
@mai naem mobile:
If you read the whole comment, not just the part that was taken out of context, it turns out she was saying there was so much misinformation surrounding the bill that nobody could keep it straight, and the only way we’d be able to separate the truth from the fiction was to see it in action.
Suzanne
@mai naem mobile:
It’s because they aren’t very smart.
Truly, it’s because they think that governance isn’t something that requires skill or experience or refined judgment. They think it just takes “common sense” and Jeebus ass-kissing. Lots of words smacks of snooty college education and intellectualism = LIEBERAL PLOT to make them feel bad.
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: He looks like he is disappointed in you.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: So she looks like a cat?
Mnemosyne
We just got back from seeing Fun Home. We had to wait to leave the theater at the end because I couldn’t stop crying, but in a good (cathartic) way. It was much more about missing your dead father than I expected, so it hit both G and I right in the feels.
Another Scott
@Major Major Major Major: Sam is a very handsome kitty. The electric aura around his ears is a nice touch. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
Y’all reading the 350+ page CBO report?
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: I’m playing the new zelda, but you have fun.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: You too.
Certified Mutant Enemy
@Baud:
I can confidently say I’ve read more of it than Donald J. Trump ever will.
Kelly
@mai naem mobile: Everything in politics is simple and it can be done by amateurs with common sense and a few hours of light reading. The government budget is just like my checkbook. We have all the laws we need anyway so why pass any legislation? The woods out here are full of folks that think this way.
Major Major Major Major
@Another Scott: he really is silver tipped though.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Too long.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: What’s a zelda?
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Something obviously more interesting than we are.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It’s like a melvin but with a feather duster and only one set of handcuffs.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: some sort of elf?