Modern Healthcare May 24, 2017
The House’s version of the Affordable Care Act repeal-and-replace bill would leave 23 million more people uninsured and save the federal government $119 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
In its highly anticipated scoring of the American Health Care Act, the CBO said the bill would reduce the federal deficit by $119 billion by 2026, which is $32 billion less than an earlier version of the bill that the nonpartisan budget office analyzed.
The CBO said the American Health Care Act would put the individual market financially out of reach to 23 million people — a slight drop from the initially estimated 24 million under the first version of the bill. All in all, 51 million people under the...
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