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The Washington Post highlights these 3 numbers they want you to remember, from the CBO Report on the AHCA round II (ie. the GOP’s American Health Care Act to replace Obamacare):
23 million
That's how many fewer people would be insured under Republicans' health-care plan than are insured by Obamacare now, according to the CBO's new estimate.
850 percent
That's the CBO's estimate of how much insurance premiums would rise for elderly, poor people over the next decade [...]
Republicans said their bill will make health insurance cheaper. Except, they'll have to figure out a way to explain why, under Obamacare, 64-year-olds making $26,500 a year are on track to pay $1,700 in annual premiums in 2026. And under the GOP bill, they would pay anywhere between $13,600 to $16,100.
$119 billion
That's how much this health-care bill is projected to reduce the deficit over the next decade.
The whole purpose of this report is to make sure that the bill complies with a requirement [...] so they have to use a budgetary rule that allows them to avoid a Senate Democratic filibuster. If the math whizzes at the CBO calculate that the House bill falls short of that goal, the bill can't move on to the Senate, and House Republicans will have to start over.
The Washington Examiner explains that 119B number this way …
The Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare would cause 23 million more people to become uninsured over a decade and reduce the deficit by $119 billion, $32 billion less than previous projections, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday in its updated score of the legislation.
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Deficit savings in the bill of $119 billion mean that the House will not have to revote on the package. However, that is $32 billion less than a prior estimate because of provisions that were made for the creation of high-risk pools.
The House hasn't sent the bill to the Senate yet, despite passing it a few weeks ago.
The reason was to see if the bill's deficit savings were decimated in the CBO score, as the bill needs to save a certain amount for Republicans to use budget reconciliation, which allows it to be approved in the Senate by only 51 votes.
Here’s one more take-away number from the CBO Report that scores the GOP Health Care Bill, for the heartless piece of conservative crap that it really is …
$834 billion
Spending on Medicaid would fall by $834 billion over 10 years.
And the leader of the heartless, is about to fast-track this GOP Rights-rollback-attack through the Senate, while everyone is pre-occupied with the Tweets of the resident Jack-Ass-in-Chief.
Here is an Action page on how we can individually resist their attempt to replace Obamacare, with something much, much worse … which in a prior day would have been referred to as the GOP “Don’t Get Sick” plan.