The House Rules Committee posted a manager's amendment to the American Health Care Act, H.R. 1628, late Monday evening that contains changes to the bill that were negotiated separately with some House conservatives and moderates to attract more support. The bill is currently scheduled to go to the floor for a vote Thursday.

Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner and Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute have picked up on an important point from the Congressional Budget Office's score of House Republican leadership's ObamaCare "alternative," the American Health Care Act (AHCA). Klein and Cannon note that more people would have health insurance coverage under the 2015-2016 repeal bill, H.R. 3762, than under the AHCA.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its much-anticipated score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA). Over the next ten years, the CBO estimates that federal revenues will decline by $882.8 billion as a result of the repeal, delay, or zeroing out of most of ObamaCare's taxes, and federal spending will be reduced by $1.219 trillion. Overall, the deficit would be reduced by $336.5 billion from FY 2017 through FY 2026 under the proposed legislation.

As House Republican leaders try to convince conservatives in Congress to support the American Health Care Act, let's take a trip back in the time machine. Back in November 2003, Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, H.R. 1, which created Medicare's prescription drug benefit plan, known as Medicare Part D.