Estimate: Itās still a giant pile of shit.
Will there be a pre-emptive twitterstorm denouncing the CBO as being āLibrul and 'leetist,ā or will the twitterstorm wait until the report is released?
@antisachetdethe Yes 
SO the GOP has a 6 day news cycle to de legitimize the CBOā¦
Yeah, everyone who isnāt pregnant and has never been related to a pregnant woman can take it easy.
Is this enough time for McYertle to rush a vote before the CBO score comes out?
It seems this bill removes the individual mandate (which it can do under reconciliation rules because it has direct budgetary impact) but provides no other incentive for people to buy insurance before they get sick. Together with the stingier subsidies and the gutting of Medicaid, that surely means itās going to have the worst CBO score yet, with probably well over 25M fewer insured than under current law, and maybe as high as 30M.
But I think with the great policy experts in the GOP, if they think about for another 3 months they could probably make it even worse ā¦
Saturday Night Massacre.
The āmassacreā part will be deferred until after the bill becomes law.
Not sure about the 30mil. Iāve read that the gang of 13 used an iterative approach. They had the CBO score the bill as they went along. My bet is that they tried to tweak and optimize the bill by meeting minimum reconcilation standards while negatively affecting the fewest citizens. My bet., less than 20 mil. thrown off insurance. Still a big number, but Mitch can say he āimprovedā the house bill.
Or, youāre correct and Mitch is an even bigger asshole than I give him credit for.
So, those who havenāt seen the bill, i.e., the public, most legislators, CBO staff, are operating under a strict time limit with a gun to their head. Shameful, shameful, shameful.
I can āestimateā itās unholy right now by simply considering the source.
Both. Next question.
At the end of the day, all matters to most republican voters is how much the bill will enrage the ālibrulsā. Same goes for cabinet picks they are nothing but huge trollings. and the ābaseā loves them all.
Even the Trump voters that get affected by the ārepealā wonāt change their minds. And by the way, the serious stuff about the repeal wonāt even go into effect for a couple election cycles.
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Will there be a pre-emptive twitterstorm denouncing the CBO as being āLibrul and 'leetist,ā or will the twitterstorm wait until the report is released?
[/quote]And will the Sunday shows be packed with Republicans disparaging the CBO, pre-disparaging itās estimates, and lying about the bill, itās impact, the transparent process, and the failures of the ACA? Democrats will not be invited at all - at best, 3 to 1 ratio of Rās vs. Dās.
Will the CBO score include the starting salary of death panel ādecidersā?
Just skimming the first couple pages of the one posted on TMP makes me feel nauseas the way reading legal documents always does. Sorry an legal folks that are offended, but Iām sure even the little bit of engineering technical shit I have to write would make you sick if you arenāt used to it.