With so much chaos under President Trump--breaking, terrible news seemingly
every day--it is worth remembering just how dangerous Trump's signature
piece of legislation really is.
This is what the Congressional Budget Office says will happen if Trumpcare
becomes law:
- The number of people losing insurance in the next year is 14 million, the same as in the original Trumpcare. It would force 23 million out of insurance in the next decade, 1 million fewer than the original Trumpcare. As Dylan Matthews points out it "costs $218 billion more than the original, covers 1 million more. That's $218,000 per new person insured."
- By 2026, 51 million people will be uninsured, compared to 28 million under current law—Obamacare.
- Among those uninsured, "the increase would be disproportionately larger among older people with lower income—particularly people between 50 and 64 years old with income of less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level." Like, 800 percent more expensive.
- Relatedly, it would increase Medicare disproportionate-share payments to hospitals by $43 billion in the next decade, because of the costs of treating so many new uninsured patients.
- It would destabilize the individual insurance market for one-sixth of the population in the states that get the waivers to avoid providing comprehensive coverage, which would mean that premiums for people buying comprehensive plans would be unaffordable.
- It would cut $834 billion from Medicaid in the next ten years, and cut 14 million people out of Medicaid coverage.
- And don't forget, Trumpcare will cause thousands of deaths, every year, that otherwise would not have happened.
Trumpcare must not become law, and any member of Congress who voted for
it should be defeated the next time they are up for reelection.
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