On Health Care, Sen. Lamar Alexander Got What No Other Republican Has: A Boost from CBO

Finally, a Republican has gotten a boost from the CBO. A bipartisan Senate plan to try to stabilize Affordable Care Act marketplaces would lower the federal deficit by nearly $3.8 billion during the next decade and would not affect the number of people with health insurance, Congress’s official budget scorekeepers said Wednesday. This bill does what the CBO predicted Congress would eventually need to do so the costs were built in to existing budget estimates.
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