Trumpcare Megathread: It's dead (for now)

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Summary:

# of more people uninsured would be:
14 million by 2018
21 million by 2020
24 million by 2026

Total # uninsured in 2026 would be 52 million.

But, Medicaid slashes would reduce the deficit over 10 years by $337 Billion.

So we'll have an uninsured population larger than the population of South Korea, and about the size of the states of California and Pennsylvania combined. And the savings will amount to barely over half the size of the military budget in 2015 ($597 billion). We could save that much if we cut the military budget alone by just 5.6% and maintained it at that for 10 years.

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Schumer and Ryan have very different responses:

Ryan:

Paul Ryan is seriously a low life fuk boy

It was never Republican intentions to ensure more Americans receive health insurance coverage, only that the cost of premiums, the cost of health insurance for the average American, and the burden of cost to tax payers decreases. Technically this plan meets those criteria. So as far as most Republicans are concerned, yes, this is a success. It's not a Republican goal to expand coverage or ensure access to healthcare as a right; those are Democratic goals.

[JA]

Schumer and Ryan have very different responses:

Ryan:

Paul Ryan is seriously a low life fuk boy

It was never Republican intentions to ensure more Americans receive health insurance coverage, only that the cost of premiums, the cost of health insurance for the average American, and the burden of cost to tax payers decreases. Technically this plan meets those criteria. So as far as most Republicans are concerned, yes, this is a success. It's not a Republican goal to expand coverage or ensure access to healthcare as a right; those are Democratic goals.

Except Trump said that no Americans would lose coverage under an Obamacare repeal.

Which is true, except, as usual, Trump lied. And rather than reject this plan or admit to his failure to abide by his campaign promise, he'll claim the CBO is lying and producing false information. As I've said before, Trump's rhetoric was a ruse to get elected so he could pass traditional right wing, Congressional Republican legislation. It was never his goal, nor that of other Republicans, to protect those who received health coverage under the ACA nor to expand coverage.

[JA]

Schumer and Ryan have very different responses:

Ryan:

Paul Ryan is seriously a low life fuk boy

It was never Republican intentions to ensure more Americans receive health insurance coverage, only that the cost of premiums, the cost of health insurance for the average American, and the burden of cost to tax payers decreases. Technically this plan meets those criteria. So as far as most Republicans are concerned, yes, this is a success. It's not a Republican goal to expand coverage or ensure access to healthcare as a right; those are Democratic goals.

Except Trump said that no Americans would lose coverage under an Obamacare repeal.

Which is true, except, as usual, Trump lied. And rather than reject this plan or admit to his failure to abide by his campaign promise, he'll claim the CBO is lying and producing false information. As I've said before, Trump's rhetoric was a ruse to get elected so he could pass traditional right wing, Congressional Republican legislation. It was never his goal, nor that of other Republicans, protect those who received health coverage under the ACA nor to expand coverage.

What blows my mind is that Trump and the Republicans are going to try their best to discredit this CBO report, but at the same time they're going to point to the same report and say that their plan will reduce the deficit.

They can't have it both ways.

What I expect is for the Trump Administration to refute the CBO report while the Congressional Republicans simultaneously champion the deficit and premium increase reduction numbers. They can send a contradictory message that emphasizes different aspects of the report, then refuse to refute the other side's assertion about the CBO report. This has been their style for a long time now.