“Health care is too important, it impacts too many lives, to have a health-care bill jammed though in the same manner as President Trump’s immigration order,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.). “We all know it’s going to score positive to helping out the deficit, to spending less money,” White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show. “I hear all the talk about the CBO score. Budget director Mick Mulvaney predicted the Congressional Budget Office would find that the GOP’s health-care overhaul would be a big money-saver. The Republicans’ clipped timeline is part of a GOP effort to swiftly deliver on its promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2017 00:56 UTC