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White House analysis of Obamacare repeal sees even deeper insurance losses than CBO
The executive branch analysis forecast that 26 million people would lose coverage over the next decade, versus the 24 million CBO estimates.

A White House analysis of the GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare shows even steeper coverage losses than the projections by the Congressional Budget Office, according to a document viewed by POLITICO on Monday.

The preliminary analysis from the Office of Management and Budget forecast that 26 million people would lose coverage over the next decade, versus the 24 million CBO estimates. The White House has made efforts to discredit the forecasts from the nonpartisan CBO.

“This is not an analysis of the bill in any way whatsoever,” White House Communications Director Michael Dubke told POLITICO. “This is OMB trying to project what CBO’s score will be using CBO’s methodology.”

According to documents viewed by POLITICO, the OMB analysis intended to assess the coverage and spending outcomes of the legislation.

If you truly believe people don't want health insurance, you're living in an alternate universe.

Talk about self hating, I can't think of any group that describes more than older rural Americans who keep voting for republicans. The health bill which comes out of the republicans is nothing but a horrible travesty which will hurt the sick, the poor, and the elderly among us the most.

You are apparently comfortable in the cocoon you have woven for yourself.

Go find one of those tacky apartment buildings where the entryway has mirrors on opposite walls. Then just stand there as your reflections multiply off towards infinity.

Take that image home with you as a lesson in you projecting me projecting.

And this is why I see the American Health Care Act on life-support. House Republicans are being told they have to support a bad bill that would produce bad outcomes. They can’t expect much in the way of cover from the White House given Trump’s unpopularity and ongoing scandals. They know that if they vote for the bill, the Democratic attack ads will be both brutal and accurate.

And they know that if the House passes the bill, it’ll die in the Senate, which means they’ll have taken the political hit for no reason.

What we’re left with is a divided party with awful legislation, being pursued for reasons party leaders are struggling to explain. The president recently said, “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,” but it’s a safe bet Trump knows it now.

Last week, Paul Ryan boasted to reporters, with uncharacteristic bravado, “We will have 218 votes. This is the beginning of the legislative process. We’ll have 218 when this thing comes to the floor. I can guarantee you that.”

Raise your hand if you think the Speaker would make that same guarantee today.

This election has really exposed who the extremists are, they are the ones scared to interact with those of an opposite opinion.

Desperate? Nah. I call it like I see it.

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If you truly believe people don't want health insurance, you're living in an alternate universe.

When I was in my 20's, before I was married and had kids, I would rather have money in my pay check then have it taken out and paying for something I never used. Yes, there are plenty of single young people who think exactly that way, it was those very people the ACA was going to use to pay for itself, it was the sole purpose of the mandate.

Who do you have on ignore? This also goes for the rest of the lefties here on a2k.

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Go find one of those tacky apartment buildings where the entryway has mirrors on opposite walls. Then just stand there as your reflections multiply off towards infinity.

Take that image home with you as a lesson in you projecting me projecting.

Who do you reply to? Who do you have on ignore? This also goes for the rest of the lefties here on a2k.

It gets worse, he has most of us right of center folks on ignore and the rest of the extreme left on this site is doing the same. This election has really exposed who the extremists are, they are the ones scared to interact with those of an opposite opinion.

As it happens, a lawyer at the top of the short list to replace Bharara happens to be Marc Mukasey, one of Roger Ailes’ personal attorneys. Mukasey’s firm handles real estate matters for Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and one of Mukasey’s partners is Rudy Giuliani, who made his name as the U.S. attorney for New York himself. Not only that, Marc Mukasey’s father, Michael Mukasey, is the man who succeeded Alberto Gonzales as attorney general after he resigned in disgrace over the firing of U.S. attorneys for political reasons. What a coincidence.