Posted on 06/26/2017 2:32:13 PM PDT by Ennis85
Some 22 million Americans could lose their health insurance over the next decade under a Senate bill to replace Obamacare, a congressional report says. However, the bill would reduce the budget deficit by a total of $321bn (£252bn) in 2017-2026, the non-partisan Congressional Budgetary Office said. Similar legislation passed by the House of Representatives was also said to be likely to leave millions uninsured. A number of Republicans have expressed reservations about the Senate plan. The draft legislation, unveiled last week, is unlikely to be approved by Democrats, who see it as cruel and unfair. President Donald Trump's Republican party is struggling to secure the 50 votes it needs to get its bill through the Senate when it comes to the floor next week. On Thursday Republicans Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee and Rand Paul said they were "not ready to vote for this bill", but were "open to negotiation". Mr Johnson said on Sunday there was "no way" there should be a vote on the legislation this week. Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi earlier warned that "hundreds of thousands" of Americans would die if congressional Republicans pass their healthcare legislation.
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And what about the Obamacare rates?? Will they go lower?? The last print out I saw was that they would go up by about 40%.
Even if true, how many are losing what they never had before Obamacare?
Nancy said hundreds of thousands would die. Of what?? No insurance??
Would it “leave them uninsured,” or would they choose not to buy insurance? A critical distinction.
Lose cover?
What... hats, blankets, roofs? Cover?
Somebody up the street providing suppressing fire?
Did they mean "coverage" and run out of letters?
Fake News.
And how many are currently covered under ACA? Might that be close to 22MM?
Let’s consider the possible reasoning: 22MM sign-up for ACA. ACA goes away. 22MM “lose” their ACA.
What would 10 more years of O'care do to the PAYING insured?
choosing not to have insurance isn’t the same thing as losing insurance.
We are all going to die! In less than 125 years every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead! Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
It’s Trump’s fault.
I see the BBC, leftist as ever, has jumped on the stop Trump bandwagon with this propaganda.
How many Americans chose to pay the fine for noncompliance?
Provide a safety net for those on welfare, and low income citizen medical needs, remove state trade barriers to keep prices down, and provide for catastrophic conditions. Most of us have already purchased Medicare during our work years. Other than that, get the government out of the insurance business. Everyone else is on their own to purchase from whom they want.
If anyone who can afford it doesn’t want it, so be it.
CBO estimates, lol. A random number generator is more accurate than the CBO.
Like most #FAKENEWS I believe this story going around that 22m will “lose coverage” is bogus.
First of all Obamacare forced millions to lose their coverage and the coverage most of them got was expensive and substandard under Obamacare.
That said, I believe this story is fake because the people currently on Medicaid will be grandfathered. So this really means that the wildly-guestimmated 22m NOT ON MEDICAID NOW will probably not be able to get on Medicaid under rules going away with the trashing of Democrat Obamacare. They’ll have to get coverage like the rest of us.
That’s it?
Millions more will die.
News at 11...
A CBO estimate is just as accurate as a globull warming computer model and just as believable.
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