CBO Devastates Republicans As Trumpcare Would Leave 51 Million Without Insurance

[yallerdawg]

Source: PoliticusUSA, by Jason Easley

The CBO report is out on the House passed Trumpcare bill and the news is a nightmare for Republicans, as the CBO concluded that the number of uninsured in America would jump to 51 million under The American Health Care Act by 2026.

The CBO reported, “CBO and JCT estimate that, in 2018, 14 million more people would be uninsured under H.R. 1628 than under current law. The increase in the number of uninsured people relative to the number projected under current law would reach 19 million in 2020 and 23 million in 2026. In 2026, an estimated 51 million people under age 65 would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law. Under the legislation, a few million of those people would use tax credits to purchase policies that would not cover major medical risks.”

14 million Americans would lose their insurance in 2018 under Trumpcare. That number would jump to 19 million by 2020, and 23 million by 2026. Instead of moving the country towards 100% coverage, Trumpcare will increase the number people without health insurance to 51 million.

Trumpcare and the Republicans who passed it both have got to go.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/24/cbo-devastates-republicans-trumpcare-leave-51-million-insurance-2026.html

[dalton99a]

1. This is the number to use

[stuffmatters]

34. Yes always frame w/ this 53 million&"everybody gets sick and old,employers will go to junk policies

I am so tired of these Dems stating that only 24 million people who will suffers. Everybody but the richest getting this tax break, this GOP wealthcare masquerading as healthcare, will be threatened and emmiserated.

Everybody gets sick and incurs a precondition, the cost of long term care insurance is prohibitive for most, so when you (and your children and grandchildren) get old you will need to depend upon will need Medicaid for nursing home care as did their parents and grandparents before, and no one with employer provided coverage is safe once employers can buy junk policies across sewer state lines, especially since GOP Crapcare takes away requirements for basic coverage (eg,surgery, prescriptions, hospitalizations, medical tests) as well as the protections of lifetime caps on your insurance costs.

The Dems have got to start saying these things clearly and immediately in every interview: Use the right number (53 million without insurance, everybody else with inevitable Crap insurance) Explain that everybody except the highest 1% for whom this is designed as a trillion dollar plus tax break, are losing their right to comprehensive and available insurance security in order to give this trillion to the 1%.

And finally that this GOPcare is so shitty that the GOP Congress has voted themselves out of it and onto a Obamacare type coverage all at taxpayer expense. So Ryan and the Republicans in the House have voted to take away Americans' health security and Obamacare but are forcing to us to pay taxes to give them Cadillac coverage, in fact we are probably also paying for their long term policies for future nursing home care.


Please, I'm begging our Dem representatives, ABF... Always Be Framing!

[ProfessorPlum]

36. Agreed. Always Be Framing is the most important rule

For Democrats . And they rarely do it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. At the next town hall meetings

constituents should ask what is the final number of uninsured they're hoping to reach. Clearly, they have a numerical goal in mind and they should share it with us.

[yallerdawg]

5. The jackass they voted for promised...

"more for less!"

Which every two-bit hustler on the planet would promise.

[TalenaGor]

25. heh - they thought he meant more coverage for less money

but he really meant more money for less coverage

resulting in more for him less for us....

[Honeycombe8]

30. Of course, any idiot KNEW that what he said could not have been true.

He said everyone would have insurance, terrific insurance for everybody, and it would be BETTER and COST LESS.

Well, that sounded too good to be true. And if it sounds too good to be true, we know it IS too good to be true! Anyone with half a brain knew that.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Maybe Trump can return home and explain how this plan is going to cover everyone.

[Else You Are Mad]

12. Trump will just say...

"This proves this is a very very beautiful bill! It will fix the very very terrible Obamacare!" That alone will be enough to get the Trumpsters on board with the AHCA.

[Thinkingabout]

23. No lie too big to tell and for some they are able to swallow any lie he tells.

[bdamomma]

29. tRump can Fuck off

Yes I am upset!!!!!

[Warpy]

4. And Mulvaney's budget would devastate the Trumpers who live on disability, food stamps,

and other safety net programs.

This is the brick wall that's about to drop on them. It's also their mess. We're out of power and can't be expected to clean it up, not this time.

The longer Asshole stays in office, the worse it will be for that party.

[SharonAnn]

6. Adding insult to injury, the new "insurance" permitted doesn't cover enough.

"Under the legislation, a few million of those people would use tax credits to purchase policies that would not cover major medical risks.”

[Maven]

7. Republicans are willing to kill Americans for money.

It is as simple as that.

[yallerdawg]

10. What do they believe?

[WinkyDink]

41. Now, I know this a verboten idea here, but consider deeply what you

wrote.

Would you think some multi-billionaires might not care about killing 3,000 Americans in NYC if the reward was the entire nation of Iraq and all her oil and treasures? A TRILLION dollars and strategic footprint?

Think about it. I have.

[Freethinker65]

8. Assuming the GOP cares about Americans having health insurance. They do not.

They want the tax surcharge from the ACA on the wealthy back. In order to make their plan at least revenue neutral (for reconciliation) they needed some creative accounting and the ability for insurance companies to offer non-comprehensive bare bones policies. They obviously do not care about healthcare of their non-wealthy constituents.

Expect them to tout the "savings" and "access" to insurance. Bullshit as usual.

[Scurrilous]

9. K&R

[Achilleaze]

11. "Devastated? Nah. We don't give a shit." - KGOP

[LeftInTX]

13. I'm not seeing devastated Republicans

If anyone sees one send them over

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. It's more uninsured than before ObamaCare. . . . nt

[yallerdawg]

18. The OP quote is from the CBO report.

CBO quote provided.

[yallerdawg]

19. The CBO Report

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https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52752

[ffr]

20. Just how evil does one have to be to support this kind of ass-backwards kind of logic?

What this country needs is more uninsured citizens. Is that what we need to MAGA?

[world wide wally]

21. And this is all just to give the richest Americans a huge tax cut

I wonder how much money they actually need.

[dalton99a]

37. Their greed is bottomless.

[ProfessorPlum]

38. All of it

They won't rest until they are sitting on a huge pile of gold, a la Scrooge Mcduck, and the rest of humanity is dying of hunger and disease. Mission accomplished!

[trueblue2007]

22. horrible !!!

[cstanleytech]

24. The Repugnants dont care all they want is the tax cuts for themselves since they are rich

and for their backers like the Koch brothers.
In fact if it could save them more money on their taxes they probably would setup special camps to take care of the poor and disabled.........permanently.

[orangecrush]

26. K&R

Shout it from the rooftops!

[bdamomma]

27. Fuck do they want eliminate Americans

for their own selfish needs!!! God, I hate these fucking people.


Does this introduce some sort of dissent from the American people???? Enough is Enough!

[DonCoquixote]

28. so the map shows that not only are the Republicans wrong

but that they are disastrously wrong. 51 million people wrong.


I understand full wall that some people are looking at the "deplorable" and thinking that they are going to get exactly what they voted for. However, as satisfying as that thought is keep in mind that we are in that same boat. Between now and 2018, and yes the next presidential election, and yes every local election by the dogcatcher on up,, we are going to have to convince these people that Trump screwed them. Do not try to use logic like you just walked off MSNBC, make it personal, "you went out on a limb for Don and he screwed you! You went on a limb for Trump and he gave his Wall Street buddies a tax cut."

[ProfessorPlum]

39. Exactly. Always Be Framing. Always Be Blaming

They will understand nothing else. And maybe not even that

[Doreen]

31. I knew this was a much more realistic number long time ago ( like in the beginning. )

I knew damn well he was going to go after EVERYTHING he "promised" that he wouldn't. All the people around me in my personal life ( except my boyfriend ) kept telling me I was wrong and it would never come to that. These are people who voted for Hillary by the way. No one believed he was going to attack Medicare but hey in my world I am just a learning disabled person who can not figure out anything out.

[bucolic_frolic]

32. Actually ... TrumpDon'tCare

it's very simple

[Mad_Mongol]

33. This only matters ...

If we hold each and every one of these repugnant drones responsible by making them defend this bill at every turn.

We need to pack townhalls, write letters to the editor, call in to local radio shows and ask: " representative Douche nozzle; How does shoving 23 million MORE people out of the health care system, make America great?"

Make to assclowns wallow in their own shit!

[TheFrenchRazor]

35. but no, we don't need to secure our elections... elections have no consequences... nt

sarcasm

[WinkyDink]

40. Fake report! Obama appointees! Emails! Benghazi! Why should a healthy

1%er have to pay for sick you?