Trumpcare could leave 23 million without health insurance stat : USA TODAY

USA TODAYUse it before you possibly lose it: The House bill passed this month to repeal and replace Obamacare would leave 23 million people without health insurance by 2026, the Congressional Budget Office found in an analysis released Wednesday. The CBO's take on TrumpcareThe GOP's health bill would also increase premiums by 20% next year and 5% in 2019, the CBO found. Pope Francis with President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump and Senior Adviser Jared Kushner in Vatican City on May 24, 2017. The budget would also eliminate key NASA programs, increase the TSA's airline ticket fees and expand the definition of "sanctuary city." In all, the bill as approved would decrease the deficit by $119 billion, about $32 billion shy of the last version of the bill.




"Today's devastating CBO score hammers home Trumpcare's dire consequences for working families and seniors across the country," she said. It also says that for states that don't obtain waivers, average premiums would be "about 4 percent lower in 2026 than under current law." There were reports last week that the House might have to vote again on a health care bill if the CBO projection found that the bill wouldn't save at least $2 billion. "This CBO report again confirms that the American Health Care Act achieves our mission: lowering premiums and lowering the deficit. This estimate of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) projects that 1 million fewer people would lose their health insurance over that period than had been previously estimated when the CBO scored earlier versions of the bill.

Uninsured rate for American health insurance all-time low

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health Interview Survey, 9.0% of Americans did not have health insurance in 2016. The percentage of Americans that did not have health insurance coverage set another record low in 2016. "More recently, the percentage of uninsured adults aged 18–64 decreased, from 20.4% in 2013 to 12.4% in 2016." "A decrease was noted in the percentage of uninsured adults from 2010 through 2016 among all three poverty status groups," said the report. "However, the greatest decreases in the uninsured rate since 2013 were among adults who were poor or near poor."


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