Discussion: Spicer Trashes CBO Ahead Of New Analysis: They Were 'Way Off' On O'Care

because they were way too pessimistic about the effects?

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haha…called it. Do they really wanna go there?

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So did SpiceBoy matriculate from the Wharton School of Business along with Tweeto Cheeto?

In what states does SpiceBoy hold a CPA?

Can Spiceboy Count to 11 without taking his shoes off?

CBO: Obamacare Costing The Feds A Third Less Than Expected

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Spice was also overheard to remark heliocentrism sucked.

Later, Spicer said that the CBO’s “record is what I’m calling into question,” not the office’s authority. But he said he would sooner accept an analysis from the Office of Management and Budget, whose director was appointed by President Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, here’s what the director of the Office of Management and Budget had to say earlier today:

“The only question about the CBO score is, is it going to be really good or is it going to be great?”

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Maybe because they assumed that Medicaid would be expanded and had no way to anticipate what the Supreme Court would do to the mandatory Medicaid coverage. Hard to anticipate how mean spirited Republican governors can be.

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Rep. David Brat (R-VA) told TPM Wednesday, referring to alternatives to the CBO report. He noted that “the CBO, they’ve scored everything wrong for decades.”

Does that include the Republican administrations or just the Democratic ones?

“If you’re looking to the CBO for accuracy, you’re looking in the wrong place,” he said, adding later: “Last time, if you look at the number of people that they projected would be on Obamacare, they were off by millions.

You can thank SCOTUS for making that possible not the CBO.

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Hey TPM, how about some reporting on the accuracy of his claim about CBO?

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Between the GOP propaganda and the entry of an administration that really will aggressively move to cook the books, we’re not going to be able to believe the numbers coming out of our own government offices at some point down the road unless there are serious changes in the power structure. And the inability to trust those numbers would have very far-reaching bad effects. We just couldn’t, literally couldn’t talk the issues the nation faces as adults with access to solid information.

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Huh. I just did some real basic research of the history of the CBO via wikipedia. And I found out some interesting info…

The CBO was brought into existence by none other than Richard M. Nixon. (Man, his legislative achievements have really taken a beating under Rump!) One of the directors of the CBO was Douglas Holtz-Eakin a big Rump supporter. I wonder how he feels about his hero trashing his former job.

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except that it appears that they didn’t. From @chelsea530 in another thread

and republican governors and legislatures that denied their citizens medicare expansion dollars.

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Well, the Republican crusade to destroy credibility of American institutions has found yet another target.

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“Last time, if you look at the number of people that they projected would be on Obamacare, they were off by millions."

That’s because Republicans predicted corporations would dump healthcare coverage for 10 million employees, forcing them on to the exchanges, and that all 50 states would expand Medicaid. Didn’t happen.

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““Last time, if you look at the number of people that they projected would be on Obamacare, they were off by millions.”

Yeah, because they scored the ACA as written, not as rewritten by the SCOTUS to allow states to “opt out” of Medicaid expansion and screw millions of people out of the ACA’s benefits just so they could claim it wasn’t working as well as advertised.

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Also shall we bring up how accurate the Republicans’ predictions about ACA were?

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Agree, of course part of the difference was that insurers underpriced their initial offerings because they were 1. trying to get market share and 2. were overly optimistic about the ratio of healthy to not healthy sign-ups. Also the ACA was an enormous enterprise where forecast errors should be anticipated.

However, they, unlike gopers, learn from experience and can be expected to be closer this time, Regardless the damage with be YUGE and the CBO numbers will reflect that.

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health costs still trended downward or increased at a much slower rate than before the ACA and in spite of Republican predictions of catastrophic job loss the ACA has actually been shown to’ve generated jobs…

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They erred on the side of caution and Obama care actually did better than they thought, not that Republicans will acknowledge that!

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