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24M would lose insurance under the G.O.P. health bill within a decade
- sp332 10y agoThis includes people who decide not to have coverage because they figure they don't need it. Even with the "surcharge", if you can go 4 months without using insurance, it's cheaper to drop it and then only pay for it when you need it. I would guess that saves those individuals a lot of money, even if it raises rates for people who use their insurance on a more regular basis. I guess what I'd like to see from the report is a breakdown along economic lines. Is it that healthy, relatively well-off people are dropping it to save money? Or is it mostly poor people who can't make the increased payments?
- maxerickson 10y agoA huge chunk is the repeal of Medicaid expansion.
- sp332 10y agoI haven't done too much research on that part of it, but states like Kansas that declined the current Medicaid expansion don't look like they did very well. What's the rationale for not doing it?
- maxerickson 10y agoBasically the belief that government shouldn't be funding health care. The current bill is pretty much a huge tax cut based on that idea.