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You are here: Home / Anderson On Health Insurance / Highlighting the CBO and the ACA

Highlighting the CBO and the ACA

by David Anderson|  March 4, 20177:36 pm| 27 Comments

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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.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    March 4, 2017 at 7:43 pm

    Wasn’t there a right wing meme about Pelosi saying people would have to wait to read the bill?

  2. 2.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 4, 2017 at 7:57 pm

    @Baud: And it was like 30 million pages.

  3. 3.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 4, 2017 at 8:00 pm

    In lighter news, I Instagrammed a picture of my cat.

  4. 4.

    mai naem mobile

    March 4, 2017 at 8:01 pm

    @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?

  5. 5.

    Baud

    March 4, 2017 at 8:01 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: They used big font.

  6. 6.

    Baud

    March 4, 2017 at 8:02 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: You should be an evil mastermind with a cat like that.

  7. 7.

    Baud

    March 4, 2017 at 8:03 pm

    @mai naem mobile: I never gave it any credence. It’s all projection with them.

  8. 8.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 4, 2017 at 8:06 pm

    @Baud: he does enjoy sitting on my lap and being petted.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    March 4, 2017 at 8:06 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Who wouldn’t?

  10. 10.

    amk

    March 4, 2017 at 8:06 pm

    @mai naem mobile:

    a big Healthcare law be one page?

    which the shitheads haven’t managed to do in the last 8 years.

  11. 11.

    Roger Moore

    March 4, 2017 at 8:09 pm

    @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.

  12. 12.

    Suzanne

    March 4, 2017 at 8:10 pm

    @mai naem mobile:

    I’ve never understood this RW thing about stuff having to be simple and super short.

    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.

  13. 13.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 4, 2017 at 8:11 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: He looks like he is disappointed in you.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    March 4, 2017 at 8:11 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: So she looks like a cat?

  15. 15.

    Mnemosyne

    March 4, 2017 at 8:20 pm

    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.

  16. 16.

    Another Scott

    March 4, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Sam is a very handsome kitty. The electric aura around his ears is a nice touch. ;-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    March 4, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    Y’all reading the 350+ page CBO report?

  18. 18.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 4, 2017 at 8:35 pm

    @Baud: I’m playing the new zelda, but you have fun.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    March 4, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: You too.

  20. 20.

    Certified Mutant Enemy

    March 4, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    @Baud:

    I can confidently say I’ve read more of it than Donald J. Trump ever will.

  21. 21.

    Kelly

    March 4, 2017 at 8:37 pm

    @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.

  22. 22.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 4, 2017 at 8:42 pm

    @Another Scott: he really is silver tipped though.

  23. 23.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 4, 2017 at 8:42 pm

    @Baud: Too long.

  24. 24.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 4, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: What’s a zelda?

  25. 25.

    Baud

    March 4, 2017 at 8:45 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Something obviously more interesting than we are.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 4, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: It’s like a melvin but with a feather duster and only one set of handcuffs.

  27. 27.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 4, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: some sort of elf?

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