The Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan are of the House of Representatives, told us pretty much what we already knew: The Republican “replacement” for the Affordable Care Act would be a disaster if passed into law.
As Vox described it, it “would cause 24 million people to lose coverage and save the government $337 billion,” numbers that are misleading because they imply a much greater impact on the nation’s fiscal health than is projected to happen.
As my friend Dan Stockman pointed out on Facebook, a little perspective is required.
the reality is that $340 billion over 10 years is $34 billion a year – which is just less than ONE PERCENT of the federal budget. [$34 billion / $3.5 trillion = 0.0097]
That’s the number that matters.
We’re going to take away health insurance from 24 million people to save 1 percent in the federal budget.
But don’t expect this to matter to Donald Trump or the Republicans, who’ve made it clear that facts don’t matter.
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Hank Kalet 