White House pre-buts CBO healthcare score: 'Little more than fake news'
Source: The Hill
Two White House aides are preemptively casting doubt on the accuracy of the Congressional Budget Office's assessment of Senate Republicans' healthcare plan, claiming the estimate will be "little more than fake news."
In an op-ed published in The Washington Post, White House legislative affairs director Marc Short and Brian Blase, a special assistant to the president for healthcare policy at the National Economic Council, urged Americans to give "little weight" to the CBO analysis, known as a score.
"The reason: The CBO’s methodology, which favors mandates over choice and competition, is fundamentally flawed," they wrote. "As a result, its past predictions regarding health-care legislation have not borne much resemblance to reality. Its prediction about the Senate bill is unlikely to fare much better."
The preemptive effort by the White House to dismiss the CBO analysis comes as the independent scorekeeper works on its latest estimate for Senate Republicans' healthcare plan.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/342183-white-house-aides-prebut-cbo-healthcare-score-little-more-than-fake-news
Of course, the article fails to mention that a large part of the reason why the CBO score for the ACA was off was because Republican states and the Supreme Court rolled back and opposed efforts to implement it.
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