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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Trump is going to own both the uninsured problem and the horrible results of RINOCare.
There IS NO UPSIDE!
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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.
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What part of this O’Care version is Constitutional?
The Fed is expressly authorized to regulate between the States. Here, the Fed should be telling the State to BUTT-OUT too. It’s the State’ whom have the min. that load up all sorts of unwanted/needed crap (maternity\birth control for elderly, men; drug\alcohol abuse\mental health, etc.).
Insurers will generate any # of levels of coverage that the consumer, willing and wanting to pay, can get.
Is this including the ~15M that didn’t have h’care, that continued to NOT have h’care during??
Or we talking those that lose their spot on the taxpayer gravy train?
There is only one meaningful facet of today’s #CBO score for #AHCA: #CBO confirmed the current, as-presented-to-them House bill will reduce their (CBO) forecasted 10-year budget. This required on-paper budget reduction allows a Senate version of the #ACHA legislation to pass the Senate with 51 votes via the budget reconciliation process. Else the Senate version would be subject to a filibuster (a cloture vote) and thus would require 60 votes to pass. They got what they needed.
Everything else about the #CBO scoring is no more than heat and noise. The Repubs had to ask for a CBO scoring to get the process out of Democrat hands in the Senate.
That pretty good when supposedly there is only 11 million enrolled.. They up it after Trump was elected to 20 million..
Yep, Medicaid expansion numbers. Last I heard far less than 1 million were actually buying an ACA policy and actually paying for it w/o a welfare subsidy. And those people would be better off with an open market policy.
The unemployed, who need affordable health insurance the most, will be able to afford the least.
I have insurance for my family. Why should I have to, unconstitutionally, pay for anyone else?
I have insurance for my family. Why should I have to, unconstitutionally, pay for anyone else?
Exactly.
This BS stems from the false idea that medical care is a human right. It is a human need, but that is something far different from a right.
Food is also a necessity, but we don't have a constitutional right to taxpayer-provided food either.
Actually, we do. It's called the EBT Card.
BBC, another real beauty...
I read awhile back that 90 something percent who signed up for Obamacare are subsidized partially or wholly.
Food is also a necessity, but we don’t have a constitutional right to taxpayer-provided food either.
Wrong. Have you looked at the number of people on food stamps?
I know it’s not in the constitution but just let someone try to take the food stamps away. Same with free health insurance. Hear the screams?
Sounds about right (maybe more)...may have to look up the numbers.
Even if 14 million people lost their insurance, they would not lose healthcare or access to it.
Besides, the prognostication is bogus...
That's where the 14 million comes from.
Email the admin. like Spicer tell him and the rest of the talkers for Trump. I am emailing Ryan shortly.
The WSJ review of the CBO scoring said the 14 million decrease in insured was projected to be mostly due to existing insured, whether subsidized or not, not continuing their insurance (as well as a younger insured group that would not be buying insurance if they weren’t mandated to do so and IRS penalty etc. So the net change in newly uninsured, that is to say people seeking insurance for the first time who would not get any was relatively small. They wouldn’t lose coverage, they just wouldn’t get any.
Looking at the number who would not be covered and am not sure just how they determine the large number. I am of the opinion it is an educated guess. Since insurance in not to be mandated, many will choose not to purchase insurance even at a cost much less than Obamacare. How do they know? They don’t. Plus CBO historically missed the mark whenever they get into the estimating business.
They poor will all have Medicaid, as I understand the plan.
they have no real clue, they just come up with numbers projecting problems, then if it all goes well they can just say things changed. Kind of like weather men they are paid when predicting right or wrong.
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