Showing posts with label Congressional Budget Office scores Republican health care repeal bill. Show all posts
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Monday, June 26, 2017

CBO: 22 Million Fewer Covered Under Senate TrumpCare Bill!


The Congressional Budget Office has now analyzed the Senate TrumpCare/ tax cuts for the rich bill:
Twenty-two million fewer people would have health coverage over the next 10 years under legislation that Senate Republicans aim to bring to the floor for a vote this week, according to the Congressional Budget Office.  
The measure would dramatically scale back federal funding for Medicaid and financial assistance low- and middle-income people receive to make private health insurance affordable. The hundreds of billions of dollars saved would mostly be transferred to wealthy people and health care companies in the form of tax cuts. And the bill would reduce the federal budget deficit by $321 billion over the coming decade.
Here's the CBO report for you.

The jig is now up; there's no fixing this as a purported "health insurance reform bill." We now want to hear from the weasel caucus as to how this will affect their vote.

BONUS (click on tweets to enlarge):





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Monday, March 13, 2017

CBO: 14 Million Could Lose Health Insurance By 2018 Under TrumpCare, 24 Million By 2026


The Congressional Budget Office just released its scoring of the Republican tax cut for the wealthy* disguised as the "American Health Care Act" (TrumpCare/ RepubliCare) and, well, it's more dystopian than was feared:
An estimated 14 million Americans could lose their health care coverage in 2018, and 24 million by 2026 under a Republican bill to replace Obamacare, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday in an analysis that could make the controversial legislation even tougher for GOP leaders to push through Congress.
"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," the CBO said in its analysis.
The number of Americans who lose their coverage could rise to 21 million in 2020 and 24 million in 2026 as the GOP plan phases out Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, the CBO said.
This needs to be hung around the neck of every Republican running for office at the national, state and local level in 2018 and beyond. It's the distillation of their "afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable" right- wing philosophy, and they need to be held accountable for their "movement's" nihilism. If the Democratic Party can't pull that off, it's not worth calling itself a political party.

But, that's not all, folks:

Focusing on your average Trump voter:

How big a hike?



Or, put another way --


No wonder Republicans wanted (irony alert) to ram this down the throats of Democrats in Congress, and were working overtime to discredit CBO in advance of this scoring. The only places this could be considered a triumph are Galt's Gulch and the Anthems of the world.

* Wherein Charlie Pierce warns us not to fall for the Republican's "bogus metric" of improved access to sell their plan, thusly: "Right now, as I sit here, I have 'access' to a Cabriolet. Don't have the money to buy it, though."
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