From Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/... CBO Scoring Rep Weiner's Single Payer: Update
by Regina in a Sears Kit House
Tue Oct 20, 2009 at 11:48:31 AM PDT
Hello everyone. I just couldn't stand it anymore, so I called Rep. Anthony Weiner's NY-09 office then at their request the DC office.
Me: Is Rep. Weiner's Single Payer amendment going to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office?
Nice person: Let me check.
Nice person: Yes, it's being scored right now. The rumor that the amendment will not come to the floor is not true. Any floor item must be scored.
Me: May I post this on DKos?
Nice person: You bet.
NY-09 Nice person: We sure have noticed a lot of comments about Rep. Weiner on the site.
Me: We like his outspoken support and straight talk about insurance companies and Single Payer.
I told them that it wouldn't surprise me if the cost was the best of all the bills on HCR. They both said they sure hope so.
This is a portion of an email letter I sent this August when we though all was lost...below the fold.
I suspect, as many do, that this Amendment will be the least expensive of all the HCR options to implement. That being said, I don't believe that it will be in the final bill, but it will smash any resistance to a Single Payer or PO solution based on cost.
