WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s another possible delay to the Senate’s consideration of a Republican bill to repeal and replace the Obama-era health care law.
The Congressional Budget Office had been scheduled to release an analysis Monday on the latest GOP bill, including estimated cost and scope of insurance coverage.
But the Senate Budget Committee on Sunday said the release had been postponed. The committee did not indicate an explanation or when the analysis was expected, saying it will provide further information and updates as appropriate.
The CBO’s announcement comes after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he was delaying a highly anticipated Senate vote this coming week on the bill, after Sen. John McCain’s disclosed that he had undergone surgery. Doctors had advised McCain to recover in Arizona this week.
They are waiting to see how well McCain’s bill is paid with his government insurance so they can know whether the Senate plan for everyone else just sucks or really fucking sucks.
Hmmmmmmm…this stinks. On a whole variety of levels.
Nothing suspicious here. Please, move along.
politicalwire reports that a GOP aide has said possibly no CBO score this week.
This makes sense to me. If insurers claim the Cruz amendment is unworkable, how the heck can the CBO analyze and score it?
The CBO is perfectly capable of predicting the collapse of the individual private insurance market, which is what anyone with even a minimal understanding of what insurance is and how it works can see would happen if Cruz’s amendment passed.