How many don't have coverage today, including those on obamacare in areas where all insurers have pulled out?
How much better would the United States be if the federal government withdrew from the health care business?
The MSM does not make clear that this is an estimate of people who might choose not to buy insurance because they are young and healthy and (in their mind) at low risk for needing health care. They were included in the Obamacare estimate because coverage was “mandated” in that law. People who are economically unable to pay for medicaid coverage would be subsidized under the Senate bill. Unless a significant number of people understand the real truth in the analysis and not the Dem jedi mind tricks people will be easily panicked into voting against their own interests. The claim that thousands will die from this bill is based on studies done in Massachusetts when they implemented Romneycare. People who voluntarily did not purchase insurance from the plan were found to have poorer medical outcomes than those that did which shouldn’t be a surprise. In the long run the Dems really just want a single payer system. “Single-payer” is code for “government rationing” based on political loyalty. Once government, rather than the free market, has the power to determine who gets medical care and who doesn’t we will have returned to a feudal state of oligarchs and peasants and lost our republic.