Comments on: CBO scores the GOP health plan. http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/05/cbo-scores-the-gop-health-plan/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mikerazar http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/05/cbo-scores-the-gop-health-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-24983 mikerazar Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:34:16 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/?p=5402#comment-24983 believes these estimates. Read all the caveats and disclaimers in the CBO analysis. Do nor read what assumptions they made because they DON'T TELL YOU! These ten year projections are worse than useless. The facts are suspect, the asumptions are questionable, the projections are not statistically sound. No margins for error are gven. As long as the CBO is given credibility, we will be debating in fantasyland. Does anyone care to project the economy in 2017? How about prostate cancer cases? They don't know. They can't know. believes these estimates. Read all the caveats and disclaimers in the CBO analysis. Do nor read what assumptions they made because they DON’T TELL YOU!

These ten year projections are worse than useless. The facts are suspect, the asumptions are questionable, the projections are not statistically sound. No margins for error are gven.

As long as the CBO is given credibility, we will be debating in fantasyland. Does anyone care to project the economy in 2017? How about prostate cancer cases? They don’t know. They can’t know.

]]> By: itdiehard http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/05/cbo-scores-the-gop-health-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-24979 itdiehard Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:10:01 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/?p=5402#comment-24979 Bill should save 439 billion = 500 billion - 61 billion in savings according to bambi... Bill should save 439 billion = 500 billion – 61 billion in savings according to bambi…

]]> By: Flagstaff http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/05/cbo-scores-the-gop-health-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-24978 Flagstaff Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:04:11 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/?p=5402#comment-24978 that catastrophic care insurance, perhaps called major medical insurance, is prohibited by law in some states. It isn't available to the public because of that. Does the GOP plan do anything to remove those restrictions, maybe even through its "any state" provisions? That would probably increase coverage in a meaningful, market-oriented way. If there is a demand, and I think there would be, the market would fill it without government intervention. that catastrophic care insurance, perhaps called major medical insurance, is prohibited by law in some states. It isn’t available to the public because of that.

Does the GOP plan do anything to remove those restrictions, maybe even through its “any state” provisions? That would probably increase coverage in a meaningful, market-oriented way. If there is a demand, and I think there would be, the market would fill it without government intervention.

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