****NEW AND IMPROVED AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ACT (CHUMP CARE) LEAVES 23 MILLION MORE UNINSURED****

[DemocratSinceBirth]

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52752

[MattP]

1. Dropping late to avoid east coast news and late night comics?

[underpants]

2. I expect it will take up most of TV tonight

With Trump making the Pope sad taking up most of the rest.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. I forsee it not being very kind to the bill.

But that's just me presuppositinin'.

[workinclasszero]

4. Tune into Rachel and Larry

shows tonight!

[geek tragedy]

5. top line numbers $119B reduction in deficit spending, 23 million fewer people insured nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Is my math right?

That's $600.00 a life.

[geek tragedy]

14. not quite

$992 Billion in revenue reductions
$1101 Billion in expenditure reductions

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. My bad.

$5, 173 a life. That's less than a decent funeral.

[C_U_L8R]

10. 23 million additional uninsured?

Or 23 million total uninsured?
Either way, it's a tenth of the population or more.
Do Republican hope those people won't get sick?
Or do they just want them to die?

[awesomerwb1]

7. So this thing is 'better' than the last one?

23 million uninsured versus 24?

[uponit7771]

12. Right ... but ... decreases the deficit by 120 million ... conservatives will love that part.

[geek tragedy]

15. they'll claim to love it, they don't care about the deficit nt

[Jim Lane]

20. That it's "better" isn't clear

As compared with the earlier version, there would be fewer people without insurance, but among the people who are insured there would be more people with crappy insurance.

The CBO states:

"In comparison with the estimates for the previous version of the act, under the House-passed act, the number of people with health insurance would, by CBO and JCT’s estimates, be slightly higher and average premiums for insurance purchased individually—that is, nongroup insurance—would be lower, in part because the insurance, on average, would pay for a smaller proportion of health care costs."

I think the explanation is that this bill would loosen the requirements for the minimum coverage a policy must provide. That means that premiums could be lower, so more people would sign up. This result is "better" right up until the moment that one of those people encounters a medical problem that's not covered.

[underpants]

8. Won't increase deficit so the Repubs only need 50 votes in the Senste.

[Tom Rinaldo]

11. Yes, that's the only part of this report that they care about n/t

[Freethinker65]

17. I predict they will get 50 votes plus Pence

Good bye affordable comprehensive healthcare. Hello tax cuts to the wealthy.

Kind of sad the GOP will be effectively killing off many of their red county voters, but that must have been part of the overall plan.

Now the GOP had better work quickly to remove as many regulations and corporate taxes as possible, destroy public education, continue to stack the courts, and privatize all of our country's natural resources, infrastructure, and other assets before the non-comprehensive shitty policies start to creep into employer based coverage.

[vlyons]

9. $119 billion is chump change

"For FY 2017, President Obama proposed the base budget of $523.9 billion, which includes an increase of $2.2 billion over the FY 2016 enacted budget of $521.7 billion. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States

[uponit7771]

13. its a rounding error especially over 10 years

[workinclasszero]

16. Republican terrorists kill 23 million Americans

Who will protect us from Twitler and his terrorist party?

[octoberlib]

19. Premiums will go up 800% for elderly enrollees

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