If my math is incorrect let me know, but........

[mrmpa]

If the repugs want to put aside $8B for those with prexisting conditions:

what I have figured out is that $8B divided equally amongst all 50 states is $160M per state. If we take that $8B and divide it equally amongst the entire US population of approx. 320M it comes out to $25 per person.

Back in 2013 President Obama claimed that at least 50% of Americans had a preexisting condition, so that's 160M people so that would be $50 per person.


WTF each is one per each $1B

If I posted 8B I would have a severe skull fracture and subdural hematoma & of course have a preexisting condition.

[Trekologer]

1. It is $8 billion over 5 years

So it would come out to about $1.33 per person, per month. But they're banking on blue states not taking exemptions so the entire $8 billion goes to the red states that do. Oh and there are no earmarks on the funds so it is just another bailout to failing red states and sucking tax dollars away from blue state taxpayers.

[nikibatts]

10. Thank you!

[atreides1]

2. I believe

That is $8 billion over a 10 year period!

Recheck your math using that formula!!!

[spanone]

3. from my congressman....

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[Botany]

4. This is not about health care but a tax cut for the rich

Christopher Hayes ✔@chrislhayes
The bill cuts about a trillion dollars in funding for healthcare while cutting taxes for the top 2% by about the same amount.

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BTW 8 billion $s over 5 years is < the $330 billion $s that high risk/pre-exisiting conditions costs every year.

[Hoyt]

5. To be fair, I think there is already $130B in the bill for this, $8B is additional. Still not enough

[Bayard]

11. I'm still only getting $431 per person

Is that per year? Life time?

[Hoyt]

13. No, they are doing that 10 year thing. But, I don't think the "risk pool" would affect those

who are insured through an employer plan. Well, until they get too sick to continue working.

I think it will be difficult to figure out what this will cost with the info we have so far. Their are so many factors, and it is not clear what aspects the GOPer plan will strip out of the ACA or even long-standing health insurance law.

I assume the Senate will get a scoring and estimate of the cost and people who would be negatively impacted.

[CK_John]

6. Of course they will say it was suppose to be 8Trillion, some clerk typo.

[Doreen]

7. this is just a question with an example.

If a person is getting lets say $25 a month for their health insurance is there going to be a use it or lose it? I mean if you do not use it every month you are not allowed to combine that with months to come?

[MedusaX]

8. $8bn is an arbitrary number pulled out of somebody's ass just to have a media soundbite & get the

Votes needed to pass House in order to have some kind of WIN ....

None of this has anything to do with viability...

Simply an exercise to generate media attention which serves to:
1. Distract from Russia stuff
2. Exhaust Resistance
3. Make house KGOP look like they accomplished something as a UNITED group
4. Create headlines of SUCCESS on HEALTHCARE
5. Declare Obamacare DEAD
6. Put a check mark on Bannon's to do list
7. Pass this healthcare headache off to the Senate
8. Buy time to keep Guppies on hook... until after 2018 elections

[MGKrebs]

12. Truth

[Volstagg]

9. My wife has been an attorney for almost 25 years

She has done Workers' Comp for most of that time. She said last night that she has probably seen $8 billion in bills that would have been pre-existing conditions over her career.

This "pool" of money is a joke.