Sunday, March 12, 2017

TRUMP GOES AFTER CBO.

Trump today tried a preemptive strike against what he and the GOP anticipate will be a bad score from the CBO on healthcare.

Please remember the Republicans purged the CBO of Democrats and re-tooled it for "dynamic scoring" so Ryan's budget wouldn't look like such a large debt accumulator. However the current head of the CBO put out a marker that he won't score a Republican plan that counted "junk insurance" as real.

The Ryancare is a disaster. Tomorrow we will know how many millions will lose their insurance. HHS Secretary Price said today" No one will be worse off under the Republican plan." Paul Ryan said that the CBO score doesn't reflect "free market" values and that everyone should expect a worse score than for "government mandated" insurance. 

A Note free market economists believe healthcare shouldn't be left to market forces because it is a "common good" that is not susceptible to market forces to produce a positive effect.

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