The ratings and analytics firm S&P Global has ballparked
the number of people who would lose their insurance at 6 million to 10 million;
others have offered figures as high as 15 million and 20 million. Meanwhile, a
group of health researchers calculated that the bill would increase costs for
enrollees on the individual insurance market by, on average, more than $1,500
per year when it would take effect, and by more than $2,400 per year by 2020.
Oh, and the Medicare trust fund would be exhausted by 2024,
according to Brookings Institution researchers.
For those keeping score, that means fewer people would have
insurance, those who get insurance on the exchanges would pay a higher price
for it and Medicare's solvency would be jeopardized as a bonus.
Yes, I liked that info so much I'm putting it up twice. I was going to look up this bit of hyperbole utter bullshit today. Thanks Ms. Rampell.
"lower costs, expand choices, increase competition and
ensure health-care access for all Americans."
Why would I want to look that up? This WP editorial today brought it to mind.
No one can accuse Donald Trump of campaigning in poetry. But
after just one week in the White House, the new president is bumping up against
the hard reality of governing in prose.
Many of the sweeping actions President Trump vowed this week
through his executive orders and proclamations are unlikely to happen, either
because they are impractical, opposed by Congress and members of his Cabinet,
or full of legal holes.
The reality — that yawning gap between what Trump says he
will do and what he can do — underscores his chaotic start, which includes
executive actions drafted by close aides rather than experts and without input
from the agencies tasked with implementing those actions.
Sad.
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