{"id":31256,"date":"2017-07-24T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31256"},"modified":"2017-07-24T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:02:12","slug":"losing-health-insurance-because-you-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31256","title":{"rendered":"Losing Health Insurance Because You Want To"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday National Review<\/a> posted an article about the claims the Congressional Budget Office<\/a> (CBO) is making regarding the number of people who would lose their health insurance<\/a> if ObamaCare<\/a> were repealed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article states:<\/p>\n

Do you want to repeal every word of Obamacare and replace it with nothing? CBO says 22 million fewer people would have health insurance. Do you prefer replacing Obamacare with a system of flat tax credits<\/a>, in which you get the same amount of assistance regardless of your financial need? CBO says 23 million fewer people would have health insurance. Do you prefer replacing Obamacare with means-tested<\/a> tax credits, like the Senate bill<\/a> does, in which the majority of the assistance is directed to those near or below the poverty line? CBO says 22 million fewer people would have health insurance. <\/strong><\/p>\n

22 million, 23 million, 22 million\u2014these numbers are remarkably similar even though the three policies I describe above are significantly different. Why is that? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to information that was leaked to me by a congressional staffer, we now have the answer. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nearly three-fourths of the difference in coverage between Obamacare and the various GOP<\/a> plans derives from a single feature of the Republican bills: their repeal of Obamacare\u2019s individual mandate<\/a>. But the CBO has never published a year-by-year breakout of the impact of the individual mandate on its coverage estimates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So actually, a large percentage of the people who would lose insurance coverage if ObamaCare is repealed would choose to lose coverage because they would no longer be penalized for not having insurance. Basically, the CBO report is spin! There is also the matter of ObamaCare requiring people to pay for coverage they don’t need. Generally speaking senior citizens do not need maternity coverage or pediatric dental coverage. They should not be asked to pay for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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