REPUBLICANS SOLD the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the
Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan that the House passed last month, with a
number of untruths, chief among them that Obamacare is collapsing and the GOP
effort is nothing short of a rescue plan. The Congressional Budget Office,
Congress’s official scorekeeper, found Wednesday
that the Republicans’ bill is no such thing. Not only would it result in 23
million more people lacking health insurance in a decade, but it would
destabilize some states’ individual health-care insurance markets for all but
relatively healthy people.
But really, don't stop there. Go and read the rest.
Instead of contending seriously with this analysis, some
Republicans have embraced the argument of last resort, claiming that you can’t
trust the experts. It’s true that, because the bill’s effects would depend
heavily on how states react, they are particularly hard to assess. But that
does not mean the CBO is therefore safely ignored. The experts could, in fact,
be underestimating the pain the AHCA would cause. No one, and certainly not the
bill’s backers, can produce more credible projections.
Sorry, I gave away the ending.
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