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CBO says GOP healthcare bill would leave 23 million more uninsured, undermine protections for people with preexisting conditions
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The Congressional Budget Office released their updated score for the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the House GOP health bill, on Wednesday.
The report from the CBO on the amendments added just before the AHCA was passed by the House shows that 23 million more Americans could be uninsured by 2026 compared to the current healthcare system, slightly lower than the 24 million estimated under the previous iteration of the bill.
Importantly, the score projects that the AHCA will cut the federal deficit by $119 billion, $32 billion less than the $151 billion cut in the previous report.
This was key because Republicans plan to consider the bill under the reconciliation process in the Senate. By these rules, the bill must shave off at least $2 billion from the federal deficit in order to be considered.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has yet to send the AHCA to the Senate in anticipation of this CBO score. In the event that it did not shave off $2 billion, an amendment would have been needed to move the bill to the upper chamber, but would have likely viewed as a referendum on the totality of the bill.
Given the razor thin margin on the AHCA vote when it passed, a second vote would have likely been nerve wracking for GOP leadership.
Despite the new score, the Senate is expected to craft their own version of a healthcare bill instead of using the current form of the AHCA.
The CBo also confirmed one of the biggest worries of health experts and constituents that the bill co udl undermine protections for people with preexisting conditions.
The CBO looked at the impact of the MacArthur amendment added to the bill after the previous score. This provision would allow states to apply for a waiver to repeal Obamacare’s essential health benefit and community rating protections.
Around one-sixth of the population in the US lives in a state that the CBO projects would receive a waiver for community rating. This provision makes it so that insurers must charge people of the same age living in the same area the same amount fo premiums. Health policy experts have worried that by repealing community rating, insurers could charge more to those with preexisting conditions and possibly price them out of the market.
This possibility was echoed in the CBO projections. From the report:
“In addition, premiums would vary significantly according to health status and the types of benefits provided, and less healthy people would face extremely high premiums, despite the additional funding that would be available under H.R. 1628 to help reduce premiums. Over time, it would become more difficult for less healthy people (including people with preexisting medical conditions) in those states to purchase insurance because their premiums would continue to increase rapidly.”
The CBO said that roughly one-third of the population lives in states that would recieve waivers for the essentially health benefits, which impose a mandatory set of procedures and care that an insurer must cover such as maternity care and emergency room visits. This would drive down premiums by 20% from the current baseline in those states, according to the CBO, because “insurance policies would provide fewer benefits.”
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The Congressional Budget Office released their updated score for the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the House GOP health bill, on Wednesday.
The report from the CBO on the amendments added just before the AHCA was passed by the House shows that 23 million more Americans could be uninsured by 2026 compared to the current healthcare system, slightly lower than the 24 million estimated under the previous iteration of the bill.
Importantly, the score projects that the AHCA will cut the federal deficit by $119 billion, $32 billion less than the $151 billion cut in the previous report.
This was key because Republicans plan to consider the bill under the reconciliation process in the Senate. By these rules, the bill must shave off at least $2 billion from the federal deficit in order to be considered.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has yet to send the AHCA to the Senate in anticipation of this CBO score. In the event that it did not shave off $2 billion, an amendment would have been needed to move the bill to the upper chamber, but would have likely viewed as a referendum on the totality of the bill.
Given the razor thin margin on the AHCA vote when it passed, a second vote would have likely been nerve wracking for GOP leadership.
Despite the new score, the Senate is expected to craft their own version of a healthcare bill instead of using the current form of the AHCA.
The CBo also confirmed one of the biggest worries of health experts and constituents that the bill co udl undermine protections for people with preexisting conditions.
The CBO looked at the impact of the MacArthur amendment added to the bill after the previous score. This provision would allow states to apply for a waiver to repeal Obamacare’s essential health benefit and community rating protections.
Around one-sixth of the population in the US lives in a state that the CBO projects would receive a waiver for community rating. This provision makes it so that insurers must charge people of the same age living in the same area the same amount fo premiums. Health policy experts have worried that by repealing community rating, insurers could charge more to those with preexisting conditions and possibly price them out of the market.
This possibility was echoed in the CBO projections. From the report:
“In addition, premiums
The CBO said that roughly one-third of the population lives in states that would recieve waivers for the essentially health benefits, which impose a mandatory set of procedures and care that an insurer must cover such as maternity care and emergency room visits. This would drive down premiums by 20% from the current baseline in those states, according to the CBO, because “insurance policies would provide fewer benefits.”
NOW WATCH: Former Navy SEAL commanders explain why they still wake up at 4:30 a.m. — and why you should, too
Read more stories on Business Insider, Malaysian edition of the world’s fastest-growing business and technology news website.
✍ Sumber Pautan : ☕ Business InsiderBusiness Insider
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