Report: 15 Million People Will Lose Health Coverage Under GOP Repeal Bill
Source: TPM
By Alice Ollstein, Published. March 10, 2017, 11:02 AM EDT
The Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act is moving full steam aheadapproved by two committees this week on party line votesdespite the fact that Congress' research arm has not yet issued its report on how much the bill would cost the government and how many people could lose their health insurance if it passes.
A report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is expected next week, and experts at the Brookings Institutewho have performed their own analysis of the billpredicted it will bear bad news for Republicans.
"CBOs analysis will likely estimate that at least 15 million people will lose coverage under the American Health Care Act (AHCA) by the end of the ten-year scoring window," wrote Brookings analysts Loren Adler and Matthew Fiedler. "Estimates could be higher, but its is unlikely they will be significantly lower."
The Brookings report is based on past CBO analyses of policies included in the new GOP bill, all of which are predicted to cause people to lose their insurance coverage. These policies include repealing Obamacare's individual mandate that everyone must purchase some form of health insurance, changing Medicaid into block grants to states on a per capita basis, replacing the current Obamacare subsidies with less-generous tax credits, and allowing insurers to charge people higher premiums if their coverage lapses for more than 60 days.
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