CBO To Drop ‘Repeal-And-Delay’ Score As Senators Huddle On Capitol Hill

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Amid the chaos on Capitol Hill around health care—including the scheduling of an emergency late-night meeting and Senate leaders’ promise to hold a vote early next week—the Congressional Budget Office issued a surprise announcement Wednesday afternoon that it will unveil its analysis of a plan some lawmakers favor to repeal Obamacare immediately and delay the formulation of a replacement plan.

The non-partisan CBO said it would issue a score of the “Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act,” which was posted Wednesday on the Senate Budget Committee’s website, later in the day.

The announcement comes after several senators publicly opposed the repeal-and-delay model, enough to block it from ever receiving a vote. Trump, who for days has said he favors such a plan, reversed course Wednesday himself and urged the Senate to repeal Obamacare and replace it with an alternate health care system simultaneously.

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  1. Avatar for ghost ghost says:

    I’m sure the Turtle and his pals will be thrilled with the score. Dum dum dum…

  2. Trump, who for days has said he favors such a plan, reversed course Wednesday himself and urged the Senate to repeal Obamacare and replace it with an alternate health care system simultaneously.

    Well Mitch. I suppose you know who’ve you’ve taken up with? That’s Stick-at-naught Trumpy, that is. Though I’ve heard other names not so pretty.

  3. Avatar for tsp tsp says:

    “Drop” in the headline to this article is the wrong word to use. I clicked expecting to read that the CBO decided not to score the Repeal Only strategy, at all. “Reveal” or “Issue” would be much better and less confusing. FWIW

  4. You’re right, of course – drop can mean either abandon or release, so a different headline is necessary.

  5. I started reading the bill to see what they were changing (I do tax for a living) and the immediate thing that jumped out me was the exclusion of all health insurance plans that cover abortions. I don’t see how that is constitutional first of all. Second, the party of life and less government intrusion doesn’t mind throwing 32 million people off health insurance plans, whether the individual is disabled or not, but insists on regulating the reproduction and health choices of women.

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