The combination of cruelty and incompetence boggles the mind (#Trumpcare)!!--IMMORAL!!

I am simply going to just call it immoral from now on.


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The combination of cruelty and incompetence boggles the mind https://www.healthinsurance.org/repeal-and-replace/will-repeal-and-replace-implode/ …

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Will “repeal and replace” implode?
Republicans just proposed a $12,900 annual premium increase on low-income 64-year-olds. A shambolic performance.

By Harold Pollack
healthinsurance.org contributor
March 14, 2017

Will “repeal and replace” implode?

The American Health Care Act (AHCA) is House Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The bill is also politically self-immolating. I just don’t understand what Republicans are trying to do here.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is the closest we have to a nonpartisan referee who can fairly assess the likely impact of complicated legislation. Although its director was hand-picked by Speaker Ryan and the Republican majority, CBO has admirably retained its professional independence. That’s especially important in this polarized time.
Brutal from political and human perspectives

CBO’s official score of AHCA was released this afternoon. I’ll let my buddy Charles Gaba give the details. Briefly put, CBO’s numbers are brutal from both a political and human perspective. If the AHCA passes as written, by the end of next year, fourteen million fewer Americans will have health insurance. Twenty-four million more people will be uninsured by 2026.

And the bad news keeps coming. Table 4 of CBO’s report describes the impact of AHCA on nongroup health insurance premiums. As I read the table, a 64-year-old with a yearly income of $26,500 would see his annual net premium increase from $1,700 to a whopping $14,600—and this for a markedly less generous plan.

How the AHCA will make health insurance harder to pay for.

Whatever the policy issues, a $12,900 premium increase on low-income 64-year-olds is political suicide. If this actually happened, Republicans would be destroyed at the polls next November. This was utterly predictable, too, given the main features of the Republican bill.

A shambolic legislative process

Source: https://www.healthinsurance.org/repeal-and-replace/will-repeal-and-replace-implode/
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