15 million over the next year
Good news, the Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would throw fewer people off health insurance.
The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026, a figure that is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured that the House version would create, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday.
Yes but a million is a million. Nothing to sneeze at.
Next year, 15 million more people would be uninsured compared with current law, the budget office said.
They should have thought of that before they decided to be those people, shouldn’t they.
Before the budget office released its report on Monday, the American Medical Association officially announced its opposition to the bill, and the National Governors Association urged the Senate to slow down.
Now, the budget office’s findings will give fodder to Democrats who were already assailing the bill as cruel. It could give pause to some Republican senators who have been mulling whether to support the bill — or it could give them an additional reason to come out against the bill altogether.
Or they could just say hey it’s the luck of the draw and support it anyway.
Yeah, anyone who chooses to be poor has it coming. I mean, idiots. /s
Not even my country and I’m spitting chunks of broken tooth out just thinking about this.
I wonder how many of that 15 million voted for Twoscoops.
I also wonder how many wln’t be around to make the same mistake in 4 years time.
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I wish it was 100% of them.
I think they will spin it as 22 million people liberated from the burden of “forced” insurance, free, gloriously free, to accept and manage their own risks, and this function of a free market and the invisible hand will usher in a bright new era of unicorns and rainbows.
There’s an old observation–Both rich and poor are free to sleep under the bridges, however only the poor choose to do so. That’s free choice in a capitalist society.
Rob,
How could members of the working class imagine that a billionaire rentier could possibly genuinely represent their economic and political interests?
RJW, I have no idea, although having said that I’ve met many people who vote against their class interests. I have no idea why. For that matter I do as well. I vote in favour of tax and social policies that do not favour my income bracket, but that’s because I remember what it was like being raised in perilous economic circumstances.