The CBO can only score legislation presented to it. That's what it does.
They did, however, evaluate the Affordable Care Act and, as Factcheck notes below, they did pretty good.
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/03/cbos-ob...-accurate/
Their accuracy there does not bode well for the Republicunts' WeDon'tCare legislation.
They did, however, evaluate the Affordable Care Act and, as Factcheck notes below, they did pretty good.
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/03/cbos-ob...-accurate/
Quote:So, was the Congressional Budget Office really “way, way off … in every aspect” of how it predicted that Obamacare would work, as the White House claims? No, it wasn’t.
The CBO actually nailed the overall impact of the law on the uninsured pretty closely. It predicted a big drop in the percentage of people under age 65 who would lack insurance, and that turned out to be the case. CBO projected that in 2016 that nonelderly rate would fall to 11 percent, and the latest figure put the actual rate at 10.3 percent.
It’s true (as Trump administration officials have repeatedly pointed out) that CBO greatly overestimated the number who would get government-subsidized coverage through the new insurance exchanges. But at the same time, CBO underestimated the number who would get coverage through expanding Medicaid.
And whatever the failings of CBO’s predictions, they were closer to the mark than those of the Obama administration and some other prominent forecasters.
Their accuracy there does not bode well for the Republicunts' WeDon'tCare legislation.
