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Senate Health Bill in Peril as C.B.O. Predicts 22 Million More Uninsured

Crabtownboy

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The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act was edging toward collapse on Monday after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026.

Two Republicans, Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky, said Monday that they would vote against even debating the health care bill, joining Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, who made the same pledge on Friday. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin hinted that he, too, would probably oppose taking up the bill on a procedural vote expected as early as Tuesday, meaning a collapse could be imminent.

“It’s worse to pass a bad bill than pass no bill,” Mr. Paul told reporters.

Ms. Collins wrote on Twitter on Monday evening that she wanted to work with her colleagues from both parties to fix flaws in the Affordable Care Act, but that the budget office’s report showed that the “Senate bill won’t do it.”

The report left Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, with the unenviable choices of changing senators’ stated positions, withdrawing the bill from consideration while he renegotiates, or letting it go down to defeat — a remarkable conclusion to the Republicans’ seven-year push to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.


Senate Health Bill in Peril as C.B.O. Predicts 22 Million More Uninsured
 

InTheLight

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Somewhere early in the decade the Democrats changed the argument from the goal being lower cost insurance with good coverage tailored to the individuals needs to universal coverage. Republicans have fallen for this new metric. Thus it is better to have more people covered by one size fits all crappy insurance plans they are forced to buy and will never use than it is to have custom tailored lower costing insurance plans for people that want to buy them.

I guess I view headlines like this OP as saying, "A whole lot of low income people won't be buying lousy insurance on government exchanges anymore because Republicans are trying to reduce the cost of Medicaid."
 

carpro

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— a remarkable conclusion to the Republicans’ seven-year push to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.

Wishful thinking by your source. It's not over at all.

It's a fitting obituary for the Obama administration that his "signature domestic achievement" is a complete failure. :Roflmao I wouldn't want to own that one.
 

TCassidy

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LOL! As of June there were 10.4 million people insured under Obamacare. And almost half of them are enrolled in Medicaid.

Subtract 22 million from 10 million and you get . . . uh, wait a minute. There is something wrong with those numbers.

Oh, yeah. Democrat math! LOL! ROFLOL!

My wife had a great policy. (She is younger than I am so she was not, at that time, eligible for Medicare.) She was informed her insurance policy was being cancelled. Why? It did not provide pre and post natal coverage, abortion coverage, or any OB coverage.

Her new policy which included those coverages was so expensive we couldn't pay for it. (Over $1000 per month.)

So I signed her up for Obamacare and paid $67 per month and a $30 copay for every office visit, and $10 per prescription for meds, and YOU, the taxpayer, paid the rest.

She just turned 65. She signed up for Medicare with an Advantage program. So far the most she has paid is $10 copay for a referral to a specialist. No copays on meds. Her Medicare is $130 per month. It is deducted right from her Social Security check.
 

Reynolds

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The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act was edging toward collapse on Monday after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026.

Two Republicans, Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky, said Monday that they would vote against even debating the health care bill, joining Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, who made the same pledge on Friday. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin hinted that he, too, would probably oppose taking up the bill on a procedural vote expected as early as Tuesday, meaning a collapse could be imminent.

“It’s worse to pass a bad bill than pass no bill,” Mr. Paul told reporters.

Ms. Collins wrote on Twitter on Monday evening that she wanted to work with her colleagues from both parties to fix flaws in the Affordable Care Act, but that the budget office’s report showed that the “Senate bill won’t do it.”

The report left Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, with the unenviable choices of changing senators’ stated positions, withdrawing the bill from consideration while he renegotiates, or letting it go down to defeat — a remarkable conclusion to the Republicans’ seven-year push to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.


Senate Health Bill in Peril as C.B.O. Predicts 22 Million More Uninsured
21.9 million probably will just choose not to buy it. Rand Paul is a self serving grandstander.
 
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