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Originally Posted by wdmso
hows this kool aid
CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the American Health Care Act would reduce federal deficits by $337 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 24 million in 2026 relative to current law.
Coverage and Premiums
The number of people who are uninsured would increase by 18 million in the first new plan year following enactment of the bill. Later, after the elimination of the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid eligibility and of subsidies for insurance purchased through the ACA marketplaces, that number would increase to 27 million, and then to 32 million in 2026.
Premiums in the nongroup market (for individual policies purchased through the marketplaces or directly from insurers) would increase by 20 percent to 25 percent—relative to projections under current law—in the first new plan year following enactment. The increase would reach about 50 percent in the year following the elimination of the Medicaid expansion and the marketplace subsidies, and premiums would about double by 2026.
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Since there would be no mandate forcing people to get insurance or get taxed, there would be many who do not choose to get insured. Projections under current law would not account for the positive reaction of the market when choice, competition, and less regulation become part of insurance. CBO often does not get it right. Supposedly this is only the first step toward returning to market based insurance and away from totally government mandated, regulated, and greatly subsidized.
It's the freedom thing. In that direction. You know. Like you say. Things change. That's how the world works. Why bitch?