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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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.
Ryancare is still not repeal, it is rearranging.
bump for later
The CBO did so well when they scored the original ObozoCare Bill....................
It’s still a abd plan.
Repeal.
Correct, ryancare was the result of a ryan/K street loybbyists/insurance cronies circle jerk.
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!
Michael, stand up and take a bow for your first trip to the hit seat.
Mulvaney is a Champ. He unseated John Spratt in SC the strongest Democrat at the time in SC.
Any time anyone can make cnn look like the fools they are is delicious!
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.
REPEAL THE DAMN THING!
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.
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.
They need to add Comprehensive to the title to really sell it.
CAHCA
“CAHCA”
LOL!!!
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!
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***.
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......
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