Goldman Warns CBO Report Will Substantially Delay Obamacare Repeal
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mar 14, 2017
After CBO’s much-anticipated estimate of the GOP’s Obamacare replacement proposal showed that the legislation could result in as many as 24 million Americans losing coverage by 2026, we wondered just how much of an additional bottleneck this report would present to the already conflicted passage of the controversial “Trumpcare.” We got the answer overnight, when Goldman’s government economists Alec Phillips said that the CBO scoring would likely slow the passage of the Obamacare repeal process. Specifically, he said that “CBO’s estimates of the Obamacare replacement legislation’s effects on coverage were somewhat worse than expectations and suggest changes are likely to be necessary before the bill can pass the Senate. We continue to expect enactment of ACA replacement this year but probably not by the early April deadline that Republican leaders have highlighted.” And since the Obamacare process timeline is closely tied to Trump’s tax reform, a delay in the former, will mean yet another delay in the latter, leading to further market disappointments, which however so far have yet to materialize as the “market” seems oblivious of the practical realities of Trump’s economic policies.
Here are the main points from Goldman:
CBO Estimates Could Slow Passage of Obamacare Replacement Bill
BOTTOM LINE: CBO’s estimates of the Obamacare replacement legislation’s effects on coverage were somewhat worse than expectations and suggest changes are likely to be necessary before the bill can pass the Senate. We continue to expect enactment of ACA replacement this year but probably not by the early April deadline that Republican leaders have highlighted.
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