Hollow promises have come home and exposed the GOP as anything but for the American people. I guess the 24 million added to the role of the uninsured are not really people of value to the GOP
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“Insurance for everybody.”
When President Donald Trump made that boast in January, in an interview with The Washington Post, nobody took it literally. But Trump had promised universal coverage many times before, suggesting, at the very least, he wanted to replace Obamacare with something that would provide better coverage to more people.
His allies said similar things. Just this past Sunday, Health and Human Services Secretary Price vowed that even more people would have insurance if the repeal went through.
Monday’s revealed that boast ― and seven years of similar Republican arguments ― to be fraudulent. It also called into question whether the GOP’s real mission with repeal is to help people get health care ― or simply to shrink government programs, reduce taxes and protect the haves at the expense of the have-nots.
But the CBO report was much worse than expected. The Republican bill would cut $880 billion from Medicaid over 10 years, steer federal tax credits away from lower-income consumers and undo some of the Affordable Care Act’s changes to the insurance market ― including the “individual mandate” that imposes financial penalties on people who decline to get coverage.
Together, the CBO predicted, these changes would produce an immediate spike in the number of uninsured, with 14 million losing coverage in just the first year. The CBO went on to say that it expects premiums to come back down afterward, but the number of people without coverage would continue to rise ― eventually reaching 52 million in 2026, or 24 million more than what the CBO expects if the Affordable Care Act remains in place. In other words, the CBO thinks the number of uninsured would nearly double.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-health-care-plan_us_58c7de3be4b0428c7f1312a3?
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“Insurance for everybody.”
When President Donald Trump made that boast in January, in an interview with The Washington Post, nobody took it literally. But Trump had promised universal coverage many times before, suggesting, at the very least, he wanted to replace Obamacare with something that would provide better coverage to more people.
His allies said similar things. Just this past Sunday, Health and Human Services Secretary Price vowed that even more people would have insurance if the repeal went through.
Monday’s revealed that boast ― and seven years of similar Republican arguments ― to be fraudulent. It also called into question whether the GOP’s real mission with repeal is to help people get health care ― or simply to shrink government programs, reduce taxes and protect the haves at the expense of the have-nots.
But the CBO report was much worse than expected. The Republican bill would cut $880 billion from Medicaid over 10 years, steer federal tax credits away from lower-income consumers and undo some of the Affordable Care Act’s changes to the insurance market ― including the “individual mandate” that imposes financial penalties on people who decline to get coverage.
Together, the CBO predicted, these changes would produce an immediate spike in the number of uninsured, with 14 million losing coverage in just the first year. The CBO went on to say that it expects premiums to come back down afterward, but the number of people without coverage would continue to rise ― eventually reaching 52 million in 2026, or 24 million more than what the CBO expects if the Affordable Care Act remains in place. In other words, the CBO thinks the number of uninsured would nearly double.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-health-care-plan_us_58c7de3be4b0428c7f1312a3?