Trumpcare's CBO Score Spells a Political--and Public Health--Disaster
The Congressional Budget Office projects that the Senate bill would create 15 million more uninsured by 2018. That’s next year. An election year.
MICHAEL TOMASKY
06.26.17 8:20 PM ET
We’ve long since stepped out of real life and into a Dalí painting. We know that. Either a Dalí painting, or a point of such Himalayan irony that all we can do is laugh about it all and make Twitter jokes. It’s the only way to stay sane.
But seriously. The Congressional Budget Office report on the Senate health bill is a moment. It should make any serious person, of any ideology, stop and ask: What do these people think they’re doing? And why on Earth would anyone—anyone—vote for this? (Monday evening, after the CBO release, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins tweeted that she’ll be voting no.)
Go ahead; click on the link above and read it. It’s not really very long. You can read it in 10 or 15 minutes. You won’t get much out of some passages, if you’re not a wonk. But you’ll get the idea.
The idea: The bill is a policy monstrosity. A health-care monstrosity. It will dramatically increase the number of uninsured, by 22 million over 10 years, as you’ve heard. But it will also increase premiums for most people, at least at first. The long and the short of it is you knew this was going to be a policy monstrosity—the way they did it so fast (after having years to write an Obamacare replacement bill, years they spent saying don’t worry, it’ll be easy), the way they did it in secret, the way they’re trying to ram it through before Americans realize what they’re doing. You knew that.
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