Bottom line: the ACHA is a TRILLION Dollar cut to health programs.

[pnwmom]

To Medicaid, to Medicare, to insurance on the state exchanges.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-health-care-bill_us_59089a06e4b0bb2d0871e21b

May 2, 2017

Republicans are trying very hard to disguise what the American Health Care Act would actually do.

They keep insisting their bill, which would repeal the Affordable Care Act, would “lower premiums and improve access to quality, affordable care,” as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) put it last month.

Any time analysts point out the ways in which those promises are misleading or false ― or cite the Congressional Budget Office prediction that the AHCA would leave about 24 million people without health insurance ― Republicans insist that a combination of new tax credits, state innovation, and so-called high-risk pools will take care of people better than the current system does.

This is not true. And perhaps the clearest evidence is in those CBO numbers.

SNIP

All told, it works out to about $1 trillion less in federal spending on health care.

[golfguru]

1. I am skeptical

that AHCA will lower healthcare premiums. I will have to see it happen before I can believe it.

[angstlessk]

2. 'skeptical'...you are too kind

Once it happens, every person in need of healthcare are already screwed!

[golfguru]

12. Agreed. I shoulda said highly skeptical!

[pnwmom]

7. It won't -- not without gutting coverage. And it attacks Medicare, too, by eliminating

the tax on the 1% that was dedicated to Medicare.

[Bengus81]

3. Those idiots that voted for Trump think he's got to be telling the truth on this one??

Those clowns will find out real soon what UNaffordable health care really is. You can have pre-existing coverage under Trumps plan. Just pony up $3,000 or $4,000 per month and we'll fix you right up!!

Can't afford that premium?? Should have worked harder and/or not got sick by your crummy lifestyle.

[roamer65]

4. It will also gut employer-based plans.

Premiums will skyrocket and most companies will either dump coverage completely or force employees to pay 100 percent of it.

[yallerdawg]

5. That would cover another massive transfer of wealth to the 1%!

"The rich get richer, the poor fucking eat shit and die!"

[smirkymonkey]

6. I honestly can't believe anybody is buying what these lying fucks are selling.

[PA Democrat]

8. Also there will be job losses in the healthcare field.

Rural hospitals will be hurt; ERs will close. Republicans are not only heartless, they are economic morons.

[pnwmom]

10. And poorer hospital care for EVERYONE. n/t

[Squinch]

9. I hate them. The only positive I can think of is that we can clobber them with this in 2018.

And of course that we can call their piece of shit legislation "the ACHE"

[TheFrenchRazor]

11. scary and bizarro, indeed. there's no way i could afford health ins. without the subsidy. nt

[kentuck]

13. If there is one industry that needs to be taxed at 90%...

It is the insurance companies.