The Congressional Budget Office has some bad news for House Speaker Paul Ryan and others who've vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare. The CBO has pronounced that the American Health Care Act would leave 14 million people without health insurance next year, 24 million in years to come. Healthcare premiums for a 64-year old would go from $1700 a year to $14,600. Wealthier people would get tax cuts. That might not pass the House. In the Senate, it's likely dead on arrival, and it hardly meets the President's promise of "insurance for everybody." We look at the stumbling blocks to a promise Republicans have been making for seven years.
Will the Affordable Care Act become the Unaffordable Care Act?
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- Rovner on deciphering CBO's estimates on the GOP health bill
- Families USA on healthy, wealthy benefit under the House GOP's ACA repeal plan
- Trautwein on the future of the ACA, making sense of healthcare reform
- National Retail Federation on support of House plan to repeal Obamacare
- Clancy on the GOP's back-door individual mandate
Credits
Guests:
- Julie Rovner - chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News - @jrovner
- Ron Pollack - Families USA - @Ron_Pollack
- Neil Trautwein - National Retail Federation - @NRFnews
- Dean Clancy - health policy analyst - @DeanClancy