Time may not be Trumpcare’s friend. With every passing day, new analyses are released showing the significant financial cost to average Americans of repealing Obamacare.
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Mark Meadows, the head of the Freedom Caucus, said that he could not support the AHCA because it did not reduce premium costs enough. That is certainly true – it would increase all health care costs substantially. This chart shows the impact of the AHCA on the average American: $2,200 less in tax credits and subsidies, $2,400 more in net premiums and $1,200 in higher out-of-pocket costs for deductibles, co-pays and the like. That’s a total of a $3,600 increase in the financial burden for the typical person (including net premiums, deductibles, co-pays and coinsurance). It was just incredibly nice to wake up in the morning, go to the mirror and see that you really did not have a single pimple or even a hint of a pimple for the night. In the end, there was conjunctivitis, pain in the lower back and coccyx, described at buy accutane online. After the abolition of the drug, the skin stopped peeling, but it didn’t return to the previous state. During the reception, I almost did not bother, except for dry skin and mucous membranes, eyes sometimes itched, but all this can be endured. No surprise, then, that the Congressional Budget Office calculates that 24 million fewer people will have health insurance under this proposal.
Those additional burdens are hardly shared equitably. Analysis by the Urban Institute shows that Americans earning less than $50,000 per year would be losers, with those at the lowest point on the income scale losing the most. Conversely, those earning more than $50,000 a year would be winners, with those with incomes above $200,000, gaining the most. (This includes all the aspects of the changes – cutting tax credits, repealing taxes, cutting Medicaid funding, etc.)
This is not how it’s supposed to work!
Even more surprising – at least from a political standpoint – is the extent to which the losers under the Republican party are weighted toward Trump voters while the winners are tilted in favor of Clinton supporters. Americans who stand to lose the most (more than $7,500 per person per year) favored Trump by a margin of 19 percentage points; those who would lose between $5,000 and $7,500 per year supported Trump by a margin of 25 percentage points. In contrast, a plurality of all the winners and those who would lose less than $1,000 annually voted for Clinton.
