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Secrets Out: The Senate Health Care Bill Is An Assault On The Safety Net
A lot of people would get a lot less help affording health care than they do today.
By Jeffrey Young , Jonathan Cohn
06/22/2017 12:50 pm ET | Updated 22 minutes ago
Americans are finally getting a look at the much-anticipated, heretofore-secret Senate Republican health care bill. As expected, the bill released Thursday amounts to a massive rollback of the federal commitment to promote health care access and would instead pay for hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.
The Congressional Budget Office isnt expected to weigh in on the Senate bill, dubbed the Better Care Reconciliation Act, until next week. That means theres no official accounting of what the legislation would do to the health care system, how many people stand to lose their coverage and how much the federal government would spend on health care programs. And the 142-page bill consists of complex legislative language that will require days for other analysts to fully digest.
But the plain truth already is clear: This legislation would result in millions of people losing their health benefits and would shrink the safety net over time. Wealthy people and health care companies would see their taxes go down. And although some consumers may pay less for insurance, an untold number of people wouldnt have access to the coverage and medical services they have under the existing health care law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-health-care-bill-safety-net_us_594ac8f7e4b01cdedefff13c?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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