Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
CBO Assessment Of Republicans' Health Plan Expected Week Of May 22
The Washington Post: CBO To Issue Cost Estimate Of House Health-Care Bill Within Two Weeks
The Congressional Budget Office is planning to release the week of May 22 an assessment of how the health-care legislation that the House just passed will impact federal spending. In a blog post on Wednesday, the CBO said that its staff and Congress’s nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation expect to issue the cost estimates early that week. The notice did not say whether the analysis of the Republicans’ Affordable Health Care Act will include a forecast of how the bill would affect the number of Americans with health insurance, and a spokeswoman for the office said she did not have that information. (Goldstein, 5/10)
Politico: CBO Score Of Obamacare Repeal Bill Expected Week Of May 22
The Senate parliamentarian can't review the legislation and the GOP cannot really start writing its bill in the upper chamber until the CBO scoring is complete. That’s because the Senate version has to save at least as much money as the House bill — otherwise the measure would violate the budget resolution and the GOP repeal effort would come to a swift end. (Haberkorn, 5/10)
The Hill: CBO To Release Score Of GOP Healthcare Bill In Two Weeks
Previous versions of the GOP bill were scored twice in March, but the bill had been amended three times since then. (Hellmann, 5/10)
CQ Roll Call: CBO Score For Health Bill Will Take Another Two Weeks
Senate Republicans, including Finance Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, said this week they won't decide how they will change the House bill's cuts to the projected spending growth of the Medicaid program or its tax credits until they see the CBO's analysis of the House-passed bill. "We're going to have to have scores, that's for sure," Hatch said Tuesday. (Mershon, 5/10)
