The Congressional Budget Office said it will release a score of the Senate’s draft healthcare bill Monday afternoon.
“CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation expect to release an estimate of the Senate healthcare plan later this afternoon,” the agency said in a press release. “The estimate will be published on CBO’s website.”
CBO did not specify the time that the report would be released. The draft legislation, written by Republicans, was released Thursday and is intended to repeal and replace portions of Obamacare. Senate leaders are encouraging members to vote Thursday.
The score will evaluate how the bill would affect the rates of uninsurance in the U.S. and how it would impact federal spending and the deficit. A score of the House bill, the American Health Care Act, projected that uninsurance rates would increase by 23 million and that it would reduce the deficit by $119 billion, both over a decade.
The Senate draft is similar to the House bill but includes several changes. It provides funds that would help stabilize the exchanges in the short term and changes the rate of Medicaid growth in the long term. Its tax subsidies to help people buy private insurance would extend to factoring in other qualifications besides age, including income and geography.
The report will include the latest changes to the bill’s draft, released Monday, which would delay health insurance coverage for six months for people who go uninsured and then wait to sign up.
Centrist senators, such as Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, have said that the results from the CBO score will help them evaluate whether to support the bill.
