CBO: 23M Fewer People Would Be Insured Under AHCA; Deficit Would Fall $119B

By Michelle M. Stein John Wilkerson / May 24, 2017 at 8:03 PM
Twenty-three million fewer Americans would have health insurance in a decade under the House GOP American Health Care Act -- though that number includes a "few million" people who would buy insurance that CBO doesn't count as real coverage -- premiums and benefits would fall in concert, and the bill would reduce the deficit by $119 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of the AHCA's effects on coverage and government spending. Medicaid still accounts for 14 million of...


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