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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDont sugarcoat this. Trump just called for 32 million people to lose health coverage.
By Greg Sargent at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/06/30/dont-sugarcoat-this-trump-just-called-for-32-million-people-to-lose-health-coverage/?utm_term=.3a9ecbb8bb3b
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Beyond this, though, its worth taking Trumps tweet as an actual policy statement. Trump has now called for total repeal of the Affordable Care Act, with no guarantee of any specific replacement later, or even a guarantee that any replacement would ever materialize at all.
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Its hard to estimate what would happen if Republicans did act on this and Trump signed it. Republicans probably wouldnt be able to repeal some key portions of the Affordable Care Act particularly its insurance-market regulations via a simple majority reconciliation vote. But they could theoretically repeal things with a budgetary orientation, such as the individual mandate and the Medicaid expansion and the subsidies to lower-income people why buy insurance on the exchanges.
We can estimate the impact of repealing those things. Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office has already done so, when it analyzed a previous version of a GOP repeal bill over a year ago. And that analysis found that repealing those things would result in 32 million people losing coverage by 2026, 19 million of them people who would lose Medicaid coverage.
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When Republicans floated their repeal bill back in 2016, CBO concluded that 32 million people would lose coverage, relative to the current baseline, by 2026, Nicholas Bagley, a health policy expert at the University of Michigan, emailed me today. Fully 19 million people would be kicked off of Medicaid. Those coverage losses are even grimmer than the losses from the House and Senate bills that are currently under discussion.
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(45,025 posts)We're not that far off.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)MSNBC mentioned how Mr.Obama was relieved in Indonesia yesterday. She said this to me,"watch for Trump to attack Obamacare tomorrow morning",bam, it sure as hell did. Trump is so pissed that Obama is popularity is so much greater than his.
His Cheerleaders in Congress have been trying to change the Narrative from Trump/Russia too Hillary/DNC Server hack or in her private home.
Just caught a segment on CNN,for crying out loud,what a ignorant bunch of clods.