Who wins, who loses in US Republican health care plan

House conservatives vowed to block the bill as “Obamacare Lite” unless there are more restrictions, even as a Republican, Sen. While Obamacare mitigated this and the new Republican plan preserves said mitigation, the new GOP plan allows insurance companies to sock it to older Americans, the ones likely to have the most pre-existing conditions.

“With respect to precise quantitative point estimates, the differences between CBO’s estimates and actual experience are well within the range that I would expect given the scope of the change CBO was being asked to analyze”, said Matthew Fiedler, a fellow with the Center for Health Policy in Brookings’ Economic Studies Program.

House Republican leaders had hoped to pass their repeal measure in the full House as early as next week and send it to the Senate, where it’s facing even stronger skepticism from Republicans.

Right about now, Americans who voted for candidates promising to dismantle the health reform law are getting a glimpse of what they’ve won.

Another White House official again stressed that the CBO has been wrong before on health care.

“I think that is fair game if you’re trying to be an honest broker and better the bill, and I think we should welcome that kind of discussion”, he said. Three other Budget Committee Republicans, Reps.

Under Obamacare, states that chose to participate in Medicaid expansion, which opened the program to single, able-bodied adults, broadened their programs to cover people making up to 138 percent of poverty-level income. See “Budget Office Report on ACA Replacement Sparks Partisan Reaction” (March 13).

The CBO on Monday projected the number of people without health insurance would grow by 14 million in 2018 under the Republican replacement bill.

“As in the past, there are huge partisan divisions, with Democrats largely holding favorable views and Republicans largely holding unfavorable ones”. The nonpartisan entity determined 24 million fewer people would have health insurance a decade from now, compared with current law.

Republicans from rural states increasingly are anxious that their party’s plan to replace the Affordable Care Act would inflict damage on vulnerable communities, especially the poor and middle-aged in isolated areas whose votes helped catapult Donald Trump into the White House. That uncompensated care that was written off by hospitals or billed to the state.

“Views of the Affordable Care Act overall are similar to last month, with 49 percent holding a favorable view and 44 percent unfavorable”, Kaiser said in a summary of the poll’s results. “You know why? Because this isn’t a government mandate”. John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Tuesday. He didn’t provide more specifics.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, is among a group of governors calling for more flexibility on caps in federal Medicaid funding to allow for changes in the number of people being covered or costs for expensive new drugs. That may motivate some who have not had insurance in the past to get it. The President tweeted twice throughout the day, neither time addressing a repeal effort that seems on life support just one week after it was unveiled.

He also said he’d want to see some work or education requirement incentives for those who get Medicaid benefits. Several GOP senators have also expressed qualms about that provision.

The House has held over 60 votes to repeal Obamacare. Instead, Trump said, Obamacare was “very, very failed and failing”.

The Trump administration is selling the bill as a victory for free markets and consumer choice.