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OMB Director Mick Mulvaney makes mincemeat of CBO scoring of health care plan
Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 03/14/2017 12:30:23 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

If you haven’t seen OMB Director Mick Mulvaney in action, do yourself a favor and watch the video here. On today’s Morning Joe, Mulvaney showed himself to be smart, well-spoken, undefensive and down-to-earth as he systematically demolished Mika’s, and by extension, the CBO’s, claims about the Trump admin’s health care proposal.

Before Mulvaney appeared, the panel had engaged in extended hand-wringing over the loss of coverage that the CBO has projected. Mulvaney made three telling points:

View the video here.

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1 posted on 03/14/2017 12:30:23 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; ...

Wow: OMB Director Mick Mulvaney is impressive. Watch him pick apart the CBO’s scoring of the health plan, while adroitly handling an aggressive Mika.


2 posted on 03/14/2017 12:32:02 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Ryancare is still not repeal, it is rearranging.


3 posted on 03/14/2017 12:33:27 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

bump for later


4 posted on 03/14/2017 12:33:57 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The CBO did so well when they scored the original ObozoCare Bill....................


5 posted on 03/14/2017 12:34:00 PM PDT by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s still a abd plan.

Repeal.


6 posted on 03/14/2017 12:36:48 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Correct, ryancare was the result of a ryan/K street loybbyists/insurance cronies circle jerk.


7 posted on 03/14/2017 12:37:21 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He did explain how with 10-9 Million people currently on the Exchanges this year, the COB estimated that 14 million would loose coverage under the AHCA: The CBO assumed that if there was no individual mandate, a person receiving Medicaid would drop their FREE coverage for being uninsured!


8 posted on 03/14/2017 12:38:24 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Michael, stand up and take a bow for your first trip to the hit seat.


9 posted on 03/14/2017 12:42:16 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mulvaney is a Champ. He unseated John Spratt in SC the strongest Democrat at the time in SC.


10 posted on 03/14/2017 12:50:40 PM PDT by Herman Ball
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Any time anyone can make cnn look like the fools they are is delicious!


11 posted on 03/14/2017 1:01:48 PM PDT by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I might accept the CBO’s analysis of the GOP plan. But the comparison to their analysis of Obamacare is ludicrous. Obamacare won’t even exist in 2 years if nothing is done, so there are going to be a whole lot more uninsured under Obamacare than under any plan the GOP might push thru.

What the CBO has done is bet the farm on the assumption that the GOP plan will pass. That way, they will never have to deal with the question of why their prospective Obamacare analysis was so far off the mark.


12 posted on 03/14/2017 1:08:04 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

REPEAL THE DAMN THING!


13 posted on 03/14/2017 1:22:17 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Pretty good points about the difference between ‘coverage’ and ‘care’, but the articulating examples are missing.

Example: Family has net take home pay of $1000, child with earache and fever costs $450 to examine and treat in clinic.

Obamacare plan ‘covers’ but $11,000 deductible forces family to pick up $450 in clinic visit and lost time from work.

Obamacare insurance ‘coverage’ doesn’t do a thing except say they got ‘coverage’; coverage for what? Why pay premiums? Just pay tax penalty which most families are doing and send sick child to school hoping sickness subsides.

That’s what’s happening. It’s insane.

So CBO counts ‘coverage’ when they should be counting ‘care’ but they are ill-equipped to count ‘care’.

Summary: The government can’t be relied on to do anything right in healthcare. There are no global solutions. It is best to have local control adapt to local conditions. Get the federal government out of healthcare, restrict federal role to ensuring marketplace for insurance is free and fair.


14 posted on 03/14/2017 1:26:43 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yes, it’s merely rearranging the furniture, putting some of it in the basement, changing the decor a little.

Years in the future as dems take back Congress, they will rearrange it back and they won’t need a filibuster to do it.

Ryancare is not a full repeal. A full repeal is a law to take down a law so that it NO LONGER EXISTS. Ryancare has bits and pieces repealed withing the same ACA law, and Ryan relabels it AHCA. But those bits and pieces can be reversed without a filibuster.


15 posted on 03/14/2017 1:38:04 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Hostage

They need to add Comprehensive to the title to really sell it.

CAHCA


16 posted on 03/14/2017 1:42:15 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“CAHCA”

LOL!!!


17 posted on 03/14/2017 1:53:37 PM PDT by IWONDR
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Not sure how to post a reply to the article. Anyway I’ll put it here and hope it shows up. Put our Congresspeople and Senators on it. If they won’t go on it it’s not good enough for us. I’m sick of them passing bills for US and not including themselves. They need to own it and live it!


18 posted on 03/14/2017 2:47:38 PM PDT by tiktoc
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To: Hostage

Exactly correct.

And what’s worse, between the gov’t and insurance company involvement in situations that should never involve “insurance” in the first place — your earache example is just such — the cost is driven up inordinately, and care, especially in more complex / lengthy scenarios has gone to h***.


19 posted on 03/14/2017 4:22:01 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The CBO may be good with numbers, but they’re miserable at predicting people’s behavior - they overestimated by ten million the number of Americans who could be coerced into signing up for Obamacare, and now they’ve got no estimate at all for how many will buy new, cheaper policies for which they’ll get tax credits under Trumpcare......


20 posted on 03/14/2017 4:23:18 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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