Posted on 03/13/2017 3:44:17 PM PDT by Ennis85
An estimated 14 million more people would lose insurance coverage in 2018 under the new Republican healthcare plan, according to a budget analysis. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan group of budget analysts and economists, released its assessment on the long-awaited Republican bill. It said the number of extra uninsured would jump to 24 million by 2026. The bill would also reduce the federal deficits by $337bn (£275bn) over the 10-year period, according to the CBO. Those savings could help House Republicans sell the legislation to some conservatives who remain sceptical about costs. President Donald Trump has backed the plan, which would replace the Affordable Care Act, but the new legislation has faced a backlash from Democrats and even some Republicans.
Republicans have said the goal of the American Health Care Act is to lower costs and that coverage statistics are misleading due to the high out-of-pocket costs under President Barack Obama's signature health law. House Speaker Paul Ryan highlighted the CBO analysis' conclusions on deficit reduction and decreased premiums. "I recognise and appreciate concerns about making sure people have access to coverage," Mr Ryan said. "[O]ur plan is not about forcing people to buy expensive, one-size-fits-all coverage. It is about giving people more choices and better access to a plan they want and can afford."
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said the administration "strenuously disagreed" with the report's findings on the number of people who would lose coverage. "Right now, current law, we've got individuals who have health coverage but no healthcare," he said after the assessment was released.
Mr Price contended the new plan would cover more individuals at a lower cost. Democrats jumped on the figures in the new assessment.
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The squeals are already beginning.
What about the CHILDREN???
14 million that weren’t paying into the system? How many were illegals? How many will go back to their home country?
Lose coverage?? Or exercise their right to not purchase coverage
ACA was originally sold to us as a cost control bill, not a coverage bill. in fact, it was specifically denied that it was a coverage bill.
Knock, knock anyone home? Having super high deductibles which are never met by the majority of participants in 0Bummercare does not make one insured if they can never use the insurance in the first place. Just because you have a card doesn’t make one insured. So what is the difference if you can never meet your deductible cap and being uninsured?
Uh! Obummercare! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
Send them back to Mexico. Let Nieto insure them.
Since it won’t be mandatory, a lot of those people will CHOOSE not to buy it.
So if Obamacare exchanges have no insurers in 2018. How many people lose coverage? A lot more.
People are not forced to buy high price insurance with high deductibles that is unusable. Great I am “insured” but with deductibles I can’t use it.
And if people elect to not have coverage, then the number of uninsured goes up. duh?
Trump needs to get ahead of there commies...no, it is not an unbiased group. Call them out...say who they are.
bingo.
I read earlier today that 11 million illegals and 6 million KIDS from age 21 to 26 were actually free on Medicaid. 17 million freebees.
What do you expect will happen when you remove the mandates and penalties for people to purchase health insurance?
If people want insurance, they can buy insurance from someone...If they remove the restrictions from state to state and create competition...
Take away the mandate, leave the rest in place, open the free market to sell insurance in any of the states if they meet the Dept of Insurance regs in that state. Folks can make their own choices and the market will set the price.
Lose? Or, opt out?
Most of the 14 million are the young insureds with a gun to their head through the mandate. They are provided a choice. They can still choose to be insured and under the new plan they are further incentivized to insure with 25% more in tax credits than they had in subsidies and can pick a plan that more suits them. Bottom line not 1 person on medicaid thru Obamacare will lose insurance and everyone in the country even those with preexisting conditions has access to universal insurance at affordable rates. If they do not want it, that is their choice.
Why would anybody believe them about this?
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