Breaking: CBO: 24 Million More Uninsured By 2026 Under GOP Health Care Bill

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CBO: 24 Million More Uninsured By 2026 Under GOP Health Care Bill

By Tierney Sneed
Published March 13, 2017, 4:13 PM EDT

Twenty-four million people would lose their insurance over the next 10 years under Republican legislation being pushed to repeal Obamacare, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday.

"In 2026, an estimated 52 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law," the CBO said.

Many of the provisions in the Republican bill, the American Health Care Act, would not take effect until 2020. But according to Monday's CBO score, its effects on coverage would be felt almost immediately. The agency projected that in 2018, just in time for mid-term elections, 14 million more people would be uninsured than under current law, if the GOP bill was implemented. The difference would grow to 21 million in 2020, which is when the Republicans' massive overhaul of Medicaid would kick in, and then to 24 million in 2026.

The release of CBO's findings was a much-anticipated moment in the debate over whether and how lawmakers dismantle the Affordable Care Act. The Republican bill was already facing resistance by the GOP's far-right wing in the House, and the CBO's coverage numbers were being watched closed by Republicans in Senate, who have signaled they would prefer a more moderate approach to replacing Obamacare.




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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/323652-cbo-millions-would-lose-coverage-under-gop-healthcare-plan

CBO: Millions would lose coverage under GOP healthcare plan
By Peter Sullivan - 03/13/17 04:09 PM EDT


The Congressional Budget Office projects that 14 million people will lose coverage by 2018 under the Republican ObamaCare replacement bill.

The long-awaited analysis from the nonpartisan congressional scorekeeper is sure to shake up the debate over the measure, which is already facing sharp criticism from conservatives and many centrist Republicans.

The GOP bill repeals ObamaCare’s subsidies to buy coverage, replacing them with smaller tax credits, as well as the law’s Medicaid expansion after 2019. Both moves were expected to lead to coverage losses.

Republicans had expected that the CBO would show Americans losing coverage, and preemptively went on the offensive against the nonpartisan agency, whose director, Keith Hall, who was appointed by the GOP.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer last week argued CBO was “way off” in its ObamaCare projections.

"If you're looking to the CBO for accuracy, you're looking in the wrong place,” he said.

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, meanwhile, argued Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the CBO shouldn’t even try to analyze the bill.

“Sometimes we ask them to do stuff they’re not capable of doing, and estimating the impact of a bill of this size probably isn’t the best use of their time,” he said.

--This breaking news report will be updated.

[Lucinda]

1. KNR

[sunonmars]

2. Good luck selling this sack of shit now GOP....

[Initech]

11. They won't care. They only care about party power.

[gademocrat7]

3. K&R

The GOP own this debacle.

[Gothmog]

4. These are horrible numbers

[TomCADem]

5. Wow! That is bigger than I Thought It Would Be

[vlyons]

6. Denouncing and invalidating the CBO is called

killing the messenger. Hopefully the CBO report is the nail in the coffin for TrumpDon'tCare. Hahaha Stupid Republicans never do anything right. Totally incompetent at everything except taking bribes.

[spanone]

7. yes, but those people will have 'access' to healthcare....jeebus

K&R...

[vlyons]

8. and "freedom"

Freedom from dreadful gov overreach and the gov mandate to pay their fair share. And when we're dead, we won't pay any taxes and all our problems will be over.

[Dem2]

9. Republicans seem to have something against "humans"

I don't get it, but people seem to want to die at the hands of said Republicans, so I don't know what to say.

[dalton99a]

10. Republicans want 24 million Americans to lose insurance and die.

[Achilleaze]

12. republican-style TrumpCare Sucks Bigly