Budget Expert: ACA Tax Credits Would Be Absorbed Into Baseline Under ‘Current Policy’ Assumptions

If Republicans choose to use the “current policy” Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline to presume the 2017 tax cuts continue for the next decade instead of expiring in December, which eliminates the need to offset that spending, it would similarly extend the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits that have the same expiration date, Bipartisan Policy Center Senior Vice President G. William Hoagland told Inside Health Policy . Using a “current policy” baseline differs from using “current law” as it...