Posted on 03/13/2017 9:35:28 PM PDT by Innovative
The Trump administration on Monday lashed out at the Congressional Budget Office’s report that estimated that about 24 million more Americans in a few years would be uninsured under the new legislation.
The bill, called the American Health Care Act, would be “less generous” with new tax credits for those receiving subsidies under the current law and the plan would likely increase average premiums in the nongroup market until 2020.
Tom Price, the Health and Human Services secretary, downplayed the report and said, “we disagree strenuously with the report that was put out. It’s just not believable is what we would suggest.”
The CBO report, compiled along with staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, also determined that the Republicans’ American Health Care Act would save money for taxpayers. According to the study, it would reduce federal deficits by $337 billion from 2017 to 2026.
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The exact thing we Conservatives warned everyone about. And I do not believe we have seen nothing yet. Wait for soft immigration deals on 40 illegal grass crawling invaders.
What a shame, I was really happy thus far and was really getting my hopes up but THIS I cannot stomach.
Impeach Roberts? Roberts did not write this bill and endorse it or is going to stump around the country for it. Is he?
Elections have consequences
“It is not the government’s responsibility to provide health insurance to people.”
EXACTLY. Also, when has the CBO ever been right???
Exactly.
Paul Ryan has got to go!
I would venture to guess that the MAJORITY of Dems who voted for Trump, actually work (or did work, and are now retired) for a living.
And, that the majority of the welfare/0Care dependent Dems did not.
That's not what the CBO report says:
"CBO and JCT estimate that, in 2018, 14 million more people would be uninsured under the legislation than under current law. Most of that increase would stem from repealing the penalties associated with the individual mandate. Some of those people would choose not to have insurance because they chose to be covered by insurance under current law only to avoid paying the penalties, and some people would forgo insurance in response to higher premiums.
Later, following additional changes to subsidies for insurance purchased in the nongroup market and to the Medicaid program, the increase in the number of uninsured people relative to the number under current law would rise to 21 million in 2020 and then to 24 million in 2026. The reductions in insurance coverage between 2018 and 2026 would stem in large part from changes in Medicaid enrollment—because some states would discontinue their expansion of eligibility, some states that would have expanded eligibility in the future would choose not to do so, and per-enrollee spending in the program would be capped. In 2026, an estimated 52 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law."
You’re not wrong about the facts, but unfortunately that thinking leaves us stuck in RINO policy land and still slouching toward European-style socialist failure/bankruptcy.
The path we’re on is unsustainable. If we’re not able/willing to reform, what’s the point of all this?
If Trump approves this, I will not vote for him in 2020.
It’s an old charge that has significant effects that linger on.
If a family runs into financial trouble, the wise choice is to cut back on a luxury (entitlement). If families do it to survive so the hell should our government. That’s the problem; if the government acted like families we would have a GREAT country.
You are so right! Families have to cut out what teenagers consider entitlements when we hit hard times. Parents have an obligation to ensure our families survive. Our representatives are the parents here and if they can’t do their jobs, they deserve a divorce.
We conservatives sent them there to do that very thing and they are not willing to do it the right way. No more need be said except that I am very disappointed in Trump on this issue.
The Uninsured they are talking about are the People that opt out of buying Health insurance because the Government “Mandate”, the Penalty that Chief Justice John Roberts turned into a Tax, is abolished.
Those people aren’t kicked off their Health Insurance, they CHOOSE not to purchase it.>>> some but alot are pre-existing. a lot of people went to the doctor after getting insured. if you are laid off you have no insurance. you have to enter the individual market. make all insurance individual.
On Fox & Friends this morning.
Someone making 26,000 a yr,
if they are
21 yrs old - premium goes down
40 yrs old - premium goes up
64 yrs old - premium under ObamaCare is $1,700, will now be $15,000
50 to 64 yrs old will be the most affected by RyanCare.
The admin official did not dispute the numbers. He said it will go down eventually.
That’s the sentence ignored so newspapers can have a screaming headline to put down Trump.
He is doing exactly what he promised. People were too blinded by hope to pay attention.
He said clearly he wanted people insured and that he wouldn’t let people die in the street. He even made some reference to government paying for part of it.
He was incredibly vague on his replace plan, only talking about crossing state lines.
He IS doing what he said. On everything, so far.
I’m happy with his illegal alien plan and his economic plan, so I voted for hum. but I wasn’t in denial about how he would handle health insurance.
I agree, the savings of $33 million a year is a joke. We are in debt $20 trillion!
“This bill does NOTHING about NO medical for illegals NOTHING we tax payers STILL give medical to people who are NOT citizens of this country!!! The American people are sick to death of this CRAP SANDWICH!!!”
I couldn’t agree more. ERs in Mexifornia are so full of illegals getting free care that Americans are charged a fortune AND have to wait for hours to see anybody.
This won’t change a thing.
We can only hope Trump really does deport (including those that self-deport) most of them.
Wow, took less than 2 months for Trump to sell out.
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