PSA Re: CBO Scoring

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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Paige W. Cunningham ✔ @pw_cunningham
Senate parliamentarian can't review AHCA without CBO score and that will likely take two more weeks. So we're looking at June at earliest.
6:38 AM - 4 May 2017

[awesomerwb]

1. Can you elaborate?

Does "senate parlamentarian" mean a senator? "we're looking at June at the earliest" for what?

I wish someone came up with a twitter clone that allows 240 characters or something.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. There is a senate parlimentarian, not a member, who will determine if this bill...

There is a senate parlimentarian, not a member, who will determine if this bill can be passed through the reconciliation process. If it can't the Deplorables need 60 votes.


It will be scored by the Congressional Office regardless. When the score comes out it will be horrible and we will beat the Deplorables over the head with it.

[PA Democrat]

4. I think that if the bill still includes the ability to sell insurance across state lines

it fails the requirements for consideration as a "reconciliation" bill since there is no budgetary impact related to this component.

[awesomerwb]

7. Thank you!

So hypothetically speaking, wouldn't it be better to let them pass this thing in Congress and then once we know everything about it and it's destroyed in the Senate we can leverage that to humiliate all those rep congressmen who voted for it to defeat in 2018?

Or is it better to just not give any life to it and hope it dies now?

[MedusaX]

3. Healthcare bill cannot be acted on in senate without CBO data

Therefore, the earliest possible senate vote would not be able to occur until at least early June

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. If we can't beat the GOP over the head for passing this p o s we need to find a new country.

[karynnj]

6. Which exposes the House excuse that waiting for the score "takes too long" is bogus

Until the score is done, it simply sits there -- meaning there is little real delay in waiting for the score.

Now, I KNOW they can could then start their tax bill, but if they ASSUME that the AHCA passes the Senate, they are (I think and hope) wasting their time. They ordered it this way so they could give bigger tax cuts - at the expense of many working poor and middle class people losing real health insurance.