Posted on 07/26/2017 7:18:41 AM PDT by davikkm
Efforts by Republican lawmakers to repeal the Affordable Care Act in recent months have repeatedly collapsed after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored the various bills using a closely guarded analytic process done entirely behind closed doors. As Republicans released proposed legislation, the CBO announced its views about its effect on the federal budget and how it would affect the number of people without health insurance but didn’t provide a clear account of how those numbers were reached.
The lack of transparency about the basis for the CBO’s findings makes it difficult for either experts or the broader public to evaluate their credibility or predict how alternatives to the legislation might be scored. As a result, the scores have been surprisingly bleak, forecasting far more people without health insurance than many experts expected, and opened the non-partisan agency to charges of having a liberal bias.
The models used by the CBO to produce these scores are confidential and unavailable for public scrutiny. Often they exist only on the hard drive of a single staffer or a small group of staffers with responsibility for certain types of legislation. The identities of these custodians are not publicly known, although very often lobbyists in Washington, D.C. know which staffers have custody of the models that cover areas relevant to the lobbyists’ clients.
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The CBO scored Obamacare as acceptable.... most of the members are democrats. Time to fix the problem.
I looked up to find how people are appointed to the ‘CBO’. You just have to apply. It is well past time to revamp this ‘non-partisan’ group. There should be a balance, Pubs to Dems. I am flabbergasted how they can claim to be ‘non-partisan’ these days. They always score Dems-good, Pubbies-bad.
Defund the CBO.
Wikipedia: The CBO’s creation stems from a fight between President Richard Nixon and a Democratic-controlled Congress. Congress wanted to protect its power of the purse from the executive. The CBO was created “within the legislative branch to bolster Congress’s budgetary understanding and ability to act. Lawmakers’ aim was both technical and political: Generate a source of budgetary expertise to aid in writing annual budgets and lessen the legislature’s reliance on the president’s Office of Management and Budget.” Since its creation, the CBO has since supplanted the OMB “as the authoritative source of information on the economy and the budget in the eyes of Congress, the press, and the public.”
We got along without a CBO before 1975, get rid of it.
We need comprehensive CBO reform...
Another PRyno failure to act to clean house.
CBO is DeepState.
The CBO stated that 22 million would “lose” their insurance under the Republican bill. It turns out that over 60% of that number is people who would choose not to buy insurance without the individual mandate. They wouldn’t “lose” anything - they would have the individual freedom to choose not to buy.
Like every serious decision to be confronted, we should always consider a second opinion. The OMB and the CBO should score and publish every bill.
Over time the accuracy percentages would be published along with their opinions.
Sports teams, even horse racing do it. Why not a published track record for these fortune tellers?
Any average programmer can write an algorithm to generate any result you want.
Time to shine the light on this farce.
I have confronted a few Lefty friends with this FACT. I get only crickets from them. The complaint and the whine is much more important to them than is the TRUTH.
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