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Congressional Budget Office Delves Into Gop Health Plan's Cost

... the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their family, not the government forces them to buy. INSKEEP: Is this true, that people are going to be assured of better, cheaper plans so they won't need as much subsidies. LIASSON: Well, that's certainly what Price hopes. This sounds a little bit like Barack Obama saying you can keep your plan; you can keep your doctor. Some people are going to have to pay more. Some people will get less. Price also said that success is defined as, quote, "more people covered than are covered now at an average cost that is less." That is not what Paul Ryan said. He's saying coverage numbers are not the metric that this should be judged by. INSKEEP: Ryan is acknowledging that coverage is likely to go down. The projections are going to say coverage is going to go down. LIASSON: That's right. They are. And, you know, you've got a big conflict between conservatives in the House, more moderate Republicans in the Senate who want changes in this bill. Also this weekend, Tom Cotton of Arkansas said to House Republicans, don't walk the plank. Don't vote for this bill just to see it die in the Senate. You will put your Republican ...

Proposed Surcharge For Dropping Health Coverage Is No Real Stick, Cbo Projects

... the individual mandate Democrats crafted under the Affordable Care Act, which aimed to compel consumers to have coverage by imposing a penalty if they could not provide proof of insurance when they filed their taxes each year. But by jettisoning what has grown over time to a hefty penalty, several experts said, lawmakers have crafted a financial incentive that many consumers are unlikely to find compelling. Under the House GOP proposal, any consumer who opts out of getting insurance would have to pay a 30 percent surcharge on one year’s premium upon re-enrolling. That compares with the current tax penalty under the 2010 law, which is calculated as the higher of either 2.5 percent of household income or a flat-dollar amount per adult and child in a family, for a total that cannot exceed $2,085. Although the Internal Revenue Service has not prosecuted Americans for failing to provide proof of insurance, roughly 7.5 million taxpayers paid a fine the first year the penalty was in force. And the total annual risk of staying uninsured has risen over time, to make for a greater impetus. James C. Capretta, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise ...

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Cbo Analysis Expected To Show Higher Costs, Less Coverage Under Pres. Trump’s Health Care Plan

... R-Wis., said on Sunday. “We’re not going to make an American do what they don’t want to do.”. The CBO’s long-awaited cost analysis of the House GOP leadership plan, including estimates on the number of people expected to be covered, will likely affect Republicans’ chances of passing the proposal. GOP opponents from the right and center are already hardening their positions against the Trump-backed legislation. House conservatives vowed to block the bill as “Obamacare Lite” unless there are more restrictions, even as a Republican, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., warned the plan would never pass as is due to opposition from moderates. “Do not walk the plank and vote for a bill that cannot pass the Senate and then have to face the consequences of that vote,” Cotton said. “If they vote for this bill, they’re going to put the House majority at risk next year.”. Trump was ...

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Republicans Brace For Cbo Report Of Health Care Coverage

... that they believe could transform the debate. "The reality is that Donald Trump promised voters that they would keep their coverage," said Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "And now we have estimates from this plan that he endorsed that 15 million people would lose it," she said. "The reality is here, people relied on him, they voted for him for who've got the Affordable Care Act to saying they would keep their coverage and it would get better. And the Ryan plan is less coverage at a highest cost, worse all around.". The 15 million figure came from a Brookings Institution report on the likely CBO conclusions issued last week, which assesses the number of people expected to lose coverage under the 10-year scoring window for the bill. Ohio Gov. John Kasich - who has been critical of the bid to narrow the Medicaid expansion that he fears could impact 700,000 people in his state - ...

Trump Administration 'strenuously' Disagrees With Cbo Report

... the choices that they want for the coverage that they want for themselves and for their families, not that the government forces them to buy.”. Price, who addressed reporters alongside Office of Budget and Management Director Mick Mulvaney, argued that people should compare the CBO projection to what’s actually happening with Obamacare. By Rachana Pradhan , Jennifer Haberkorn and Sarah Ferris. “It’s about the coverage — the health coverage — that they have but the health care that they receive,” Price said. “And the fact of the matter is that right now, current law, we’ve got individuals who have health coverage but no health care. And it’s incredibly important to appreciate that. In fact, the care — the coverage numbers are, in fact, going down. If Obamacare — if the ACA went away, the fact of the matter is that there would be 20 million who would not have coverage.”. Price also faulted the CBO for reviewing only part of the replacement plan — ...

Cbo Confirms Trump And Hillary The Same, Basically

... budget analysts said. The spending budget Trump is set to release Thursday will offer the clearest snapshot of his vision for the size and role of government. Aides say that the president sees a new Washington emerging from the budget process, one that prioritizes the military and homeland security while slashing many other areas, including housing, foreign assistance, environmental programs, public broadcasting and research. Simply put, government would be smaller and less involved in regulating life in America, with private companies and states playing a much bigger role.” [ Wa Po ]. PRESS: ROOK TO D 7, SEAN SPICER: *SMASHES CHESS BOARD* - This administration’s media strategy basically boils down to waiting a few seconds after a question is asked and then replying, “.or is it?” Christina Wilkie: “White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Monday that President Donald Trump means what he says. Except when he doesn’t. This includes when Trump uses quotes around his words, Spicer told reporters. He was referring to a series of tweets that Trump wrote earlier this month, in which he accused his predecessor, ...

Congressional Budget Office Releases Report On Gop Health Care Bill

... The report put out by the Congressional Budget Office says the number of uninsured would grow by about 24 million over the next decade. NPR's Scott Horsley joins me now in the studio. Hey there, Scott. SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Hi, Audie. CORNISH: So let's start with this analysis from the CBO. They're trying to predict what the GOP plan would cost the government and also how it would affect the insurance market, right? What are they saying. HORSLEY: Well, as you say, the forecast from the CBO says the GOP plan would insure a lot fewer people than Obamacare does - 14 million fewer next year, 24 million fewer by 2026. Some of that would be voluntary. The GOP plan eliminates the tax penalty for not having insurance, so some people who were buying reluctantly just to avoid that penalty would stop doing so. House Speaker Paul Ryan says that's OK. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING). PAUL RYAN: They sort of overestimate the uninsured number, just like they overestimated who would be insured by Obamacare. But I do believe that if we're not going to force people to buy something they don't want to buy, they won't buy it. And ...