White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Sunday warned that the Congressional Budget Office’s upcoming score of the House GOP’s replacement bill for Obamacare will not rate the new legislation on the most important parts of the bill.
“We continue to think, and have for a long time, that the CBO is scoring the wrong thing. They’re scoring Obamacare as it exists today, not tomorrow,” Mulvaney told ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos, a day ahead of the CBO’s expected announcement.
Mulvaney said in his home state, residents only have one provider to choose from, an aspect of scoring that the CBO is not taking into consideration.
“The CBO is failing to take into consideration what happens to folks in South Carolina when there are no providers, which there may be as soon as next year,” Mulvaney added.
The former House lawmaker said Republicans’ new plan would make care affordable. Stephanopoulos pushed back repeatedly against Mulvaney’s insistence that care costs would go down and his skating around insurance costs.
“I had it, George. I know. I have lived through this first hand. You didn’t have Obamacare. I did,” Mulvaney told the host.
Mulvaney said his $15,000 deductible was affordable for him, but for others in his home state making lower salaries, they were unable to get care despite having insurance.
