Under Republican Plan, 51 Million Americans Will Be Uninsured By 2026
How The Republican Bill Leaves 51 million Uninsured, Not 23 Million
The Congressional Budget Office released its updated analysis of the Republican Obamacare repeal plan and the numbers are truly catastrophic.
CBO found that if the Republican plan becomes law 23 million Americans who have insurance under Obamacare would lose their coverage.
But there is another, possibly more important, number to consider. Everyone is focused on the 23 million who will lose coverage and in many ways that is extremely important.
However, the whole idea of health care reform is to find a way to get more people covered. The Republican bill would leave 51 million Americans uninsured by 2026 – 23 million who lose their insurance they have now through Obamacare, and another 28 million Americans who don’t have insurance now.
The Republican plan does nothing to help this group get coverage. That needs to be part of the conversation on health care reform too.
Here is a graph from the Washington Post that show how much the uninsured rate would skyrocket:
The CBO analysis also found that the Republican bill would increase premiums on elderly, low-income Americans by up to 800 percent.
CBO estimates that in states requesting AHCA waivers, premiums for low-income elderly enrollees would go up 800 percent. That is not a typo. pic.twitter.com/W7QC4z9UUS
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) May 24, 2017
CBO: Low-Income Elderly Americans Could See Premiums Go Up 800 Percent