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Running the cbo is appointed by republicans. the republicans cbo director is they're coming up with their best estimates. the only reason why the coverage numbers were so wrong, the first time around, is that it did not cross a cbo's mind that the republican governors were going to try to make a deliberate effort to sabotage the exchanges in their states. if you look in the states that were not opposed to obamacare that set up their own exchanges, the cbo numbers were actually pretty darn accurate. it was only because they had not conceived that the obstructionists tactic was going to get pull...

Makes this task even more challenging. as republicans, we have to come to accept the fact that we have promised a replacement plan and we have to make sure our replacement plan does provided a get coverage. and one of the reasons i voted against the house version of the health care bill was because there was simply too hard a landing on medicaid, that the tax credits weren't sufficient. so the senate is trying to put together a better bill. i'm still reviewing it. i'm anxious to see the cbo score and see what the coverage numbers will be and the cost increases are projected to be. i don't know...

Democrats are bemoaning the coverage numbers. the coverage numbers have always boon wildly long wrok. as recently as two years ago they said there wrb 24 million people in the obamacare exchange, now the number business 10 million. as of this week, the cbo report, in the base line assumption they were comparing to, they have 15 million in obamacare for this year when we know it's 10. their whole meth dog is wildly wrong. republicans are saying ignore those numbers. >> leland: quoted all sorts of teams they were wrong on the coverage numbers. it ybo always right on the fiscal -- cbo always righ...

You cut medicaid by $800 billion. >> on healthcare mitch mcconnell told reuters yesterday he doesn't know how they get to 50 votes at the moments on passing an obamacare repeal and replace bill. a house republican told us he doesn't trust the congressional budget office analysis on healthcare. >> we need to take another look at our bill as it becomes law in a couple of years to make sure it's doing what we anticipate it will do because it is hard to predict the future. cbo tries to do that but they have historically been off on a number of items and so i wouldn't hold up legislation or stop ne...

Vote, they decided to take a political gamble. why did they do this? because they were in a hurry. back in march, the bill had to be pulled from the house floor because they didn't have the vote and then they tried to get a vote before the president trump's 100 day in office. and they couldn't do that either. they are facing a lot of pressure from the white house to get something done on the health care vote so they took a vote on the last minute changes that were made. now i do want to walk-through some of the findings that we will see in the cbo score later today. the first big one is total ...