GOP Bill to 'Save American Workers' Would Actually Strip Health Care From a Million Workers, CBO Rep

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GOP Bill to 'Save American Workers' Would Actually Strip Health Care From a Million Workers, CBO Reports

by Bob Cesca at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/gop-bill-to-save-american_b_4892678.html

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Rep. Todd Young (R-IN) introduced a bill last year, the Save American Workers Act of 2013, and 208 other Republicans -- nearly the entire caucus -- signed on as co-sponsors. The intention of the bill is to somehow "save American workers" by increasing the threshold for full-time employment from 30 hours per week to 40 hours. This would allow more businesses to circumvent the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act. The bill would also reduce the penalty for failing to comply with the law.

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It turns out the Save American Workers Act... won't. In fact, the CBO in conjunction with the Joint Committee on Taxation reported that one million workers would lose their work-based insurance policies. Half would be forced into either an ACA plan, Medicaid or SCHIP. The other half wouldn't get any health insurance at all.

It gets worse. Due to the provision loosening the penalty for not complying with the law, the deficit would go up by $74 billion.

That's right, 208 members of the House (the co-sponsors included seven Democrats) signed onto a bill that not only takes away the healthcare plans of a million Americans, but it also increases the deficit by tens of billions of dollars. Meanwhile, the bill has already passed through Ways & Means and is headed to a floor vote next week where surely more members will wrap their loving arms around a bill that amounts to legislative blowback against the GOP.




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1. It's ALWAYS "Opposite Day" in GOPville.

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2. that sucks......