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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 14 million Americans will be without health care by 2018 and another 24 million more by 2026 under a plan recently unveiled by Republican lawmakers and backed by President Donald Trump. GOP lawmakers and Trump claim the numbers are wildly inflated and maintain that more people will be covered by their plan at cheaper rates than Obamacare. Do you believe the CBO, or Republican lawmakers and Trump? Overall, do you think the new plan will be an improvement over Obamacare?
“I haven’t seen the actual bills, but I know that nobody on Capital Hill or in the White House cares about the common man.”
“President Trump’s plan will be 100 percent better. The only person who won’t have health coverage are the people who don’t want it. Millions of people want to get off Obamacare, so they can get real health care. The new health care act will actually give their health care back to them. Thank God.”
“The CBO estimates that most of the new uninsured under AHCA would be uninsured because the bill increases premiums so much. The premiums would eventually go down, but only because older people could not afford the premium increases, and the younger people would be cheaper to insure. How is making health insurance unaffordable for older people an improvement?”
“Premiums will be lower for sure under the GOP plan.”
“They won’t be lower, not even by a long shot. The sheer economics of leaving people uninsured raises costs and premiums exponentially. That’s why the ACA was successful in slowing premium growth. This plan is a dumpster fire to benefit the rich, ignore the old, be defended by the dumb, and be paid for by the middle class. Just like everything else the administration is doing.”
“I can’t believe what you said? If you do, you have been brainwashed for the last eight years?”
“The CBO is crooked. You can’t believe anything they say.”
“The CBO is headed by a Republican. The administration needs to accept facts, not what they want to believe.”
“The CBO said premiums would be lower under Obamacare. How did that work out. You have to be careful about the CBO.”