“We disagree strenuously with the report that was put out,” Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price told reporters Monday about the CBO after leaving a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. Last week, several Republican senators, expressing doubt about CBO estimates, said OMB was expected to issue its own estimates of the plan. The nonpartisan budget office predicted that 21 million individuals would gain coverage through the exchange markets in 2016, but only about half that many actually enrolled. The White House and congressional Republicans have aggressively sought to undercut the CBO projection by pointing to how far off its coverage estimates for the Affordable Care Act ultimately proved. That’s nearly double the number projected under current law. The analysis found that under the American Health Care Act, the coverage losses would include 17 million for Medicaid, 6 million in the individual market and 3 million in employer-based plans.Ī total of 54 million individuals would be uninsured in 2026 under the GOP plan, according to this White House analysis.
“This is OMB trying to project what CBO’s score will be using CBO’s methodology.”Īccording to documents viewed by POLITICO, the OMB analysis intended to assess the coverage and spending outcomes of the legislation. “This is not an analysis of the bill in any way whatsoever,” White House Communications Director Michael Dubke told POLITICO.
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