BUDGET/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026, a figure that is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured that the House version would create, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday [6-26-17].
Next year, 15 million more people would be uninsured compared with current law, the budget office said.
The legislation would decrease federal deficits by a total of $321 billion over a decade, the budget office said.
The release of the budget office’s analysis comes as a number of reluctant Republican senators weigh whether to support the health bill, which the majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, wants approved before a planned recess for the Fourth of July.”
-Thomas Kaplan and Robert Pear, “Budget Office: Senate Health Care Bill Would Leave 22 Million More Uninsured,” The New York Times online, June 26, 2017