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The CBO officially sees Silver Loading

by David Anderson|  April 9, 20183:03 pm| 5 Comments

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The Congressional Budget Office just released their updated budget baseline.  (Yeah, I’ll wait for everyone to stop partying)

Umm, hmmm… the most interesting thing to me is that the CBO is now officially counting Silver Loading of the Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies as part of the budget baseline.

 

CBO’s baseline now reflects silver loading. https://t.co/lV5uJTLR4L pic.twitter.com/PvyUdM9h2t

— Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) April 9, 2018

Now that Silver Loading is officially part of the baseline, it can be part of an explicit discussion of policy trade-offs. I don’t expect anything to happen this year for a dozen different reasons but this is a worthwhile thing to note.

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  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    April 9, 2018 at 3:15 pm

    thanks for the update, Mayhew.

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    April 9, 2018 at 3:45 pm

    Tammy Duckworth just gave birth to a girl at 50! One tough woman.

  3. 3.

    mai naem mobile

    April 9, 2018 at 4:10 pm

    FBI executed search warrant on Michael Cohens property. Not sure if it’s his office or home. Says whp you ask. Says MSNBC and CNN.

  4. 4.

    yastreblyansky

    April 9, 2018 at 4:21 pm

    @mai naem mobile: office

  5. 5.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    April 9, 2018 at 4:54 pm

    Do I understand correctly? I think that means “CSR is no longer something to be protected;CBO admits it’s lost and gone; so it’s no longer blackmail material, and it can now be used as a bribe?”

    (I was going to be more diplomatic re: ‘blackmail/bribe’, because politics is reported as too dirty sometimes – the old joke about sausage making still stands! But this is negotiations with the GOP, so blackmail, and bribe, are quite appropriate.)

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