Baucus Concepts Scored By CBO, Not Baucus’ Bill
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Legal Insurrection has up an excellent reminder today on what the Congressional Budget Office has announced regarding the Baucus Healthcare plan. The big take away here is that there is no bill. This scoring was based solely on concepts:
The CBO scored the concepts described by the Baucus Committee. There is no legislative text. None. Baucus and his Democratic colleagues refused to reduce their concepts to actual legislation prior to a vote. Here is the CBO’s disclaimer:
CBO and JCT’s analysis is preliminary in large part because the Chairman’s mark, as amended, has not yet been embodied in legislative language.
The Baucus Concepts are disasterous [sic], but that’s for another post. For this post, let me get across a simple concept: THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL.
What could go wrong? Congress says they’re going to do one thing, presents a list of ideas, gets public buy-in with a “that wasn’t as bad as we thought it’d be”, and then Wham-O, they bait and switch.
Once a bill has actually been written and finalized, then CBO will have to go back and do the scoring all over. Don’t hold your breath, but I’m guessing the “concepts” cost and the final cost won’t be a 1:1 match up.
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Flashback: Medicare Exceeded Congress’ Cost Projections By 800% | Right Soup
October 8th, 2009 at 12:33 pm[...] the COB has come out and scored the Baucus concepts at $829 billion it is worth noting, as HotAir points out, that Congress isn’t the most [...]
