CBO: Republican health care bill raises premiums for older, poor Americans by as much as 850%
Source: Vox
The American Health Care Act would make a low-income 64-year-old in the individual market pay more than half his income for health insurance.
Republicans’ American Health Care Act would be devastating to older Americans who rely on the individual insurance market, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
The CBO found that the revised Republican bill does bring down overall premiums in the individual market by anywhere from 4 to 20 percent by 2026 compared with what they would be under current law.
The variation depends on whether a state accepts waivers under the American Health Care Act, which would allow insurers to offer much skimpier health plans at lower premiums. States that take up such waivers would see lower premiums, although the health plans would provide fewer benefits. States that don’t adopt such waivers would have higher premiums, but their health plans would offer more benefits — a trade-off.
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a spanking new christian, since he started his campaign for preznit. He's honest too, I believe him. No one would kid around about something like that, right? So his chances of going to hell are slim, and none, at least according to the christian/fascist neo-cons. 
(Fwiw, the premiums I'm paying are for coverage for just one person.
I like the way I recently saw someone else put it: they want us to die within our means.
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to purge people from the welfare rolls, from the Medicaid rolls, from the disability rolls, from ANY of the American "dream" safety nets........AND KILL THEM! Hooray for the GOP! 
See all the money they're saving the taxpayers? Of course any savings will be passed on ONLY to the wealthy, but still, what a great job they're doing! 
And these people DARE call themselves christians! These people DARE call themselves human beings! Other people's suffering means absolutely nothing to them. It's all about the money, money for people already obscenely wealthy. 
I don't know how much longer I can dwell in Republican World . It just isn't worth it, and I don't have the constitution to live like that.
America into a third world country. With a H-U-G-E fucking army, of course. No social programs, no safety net programs, no educational programs, just one BIG FUCKING ARMY and an endless supply of poor people, useful ONLY for cannon fodder for the military industrial complex. REPUBLICAN UTOPIA! 
