The Congressional Budget Office’s score of the American Health Care Act is not great. Sure, it saves money, but you have 24 million Americans who could lose their health insurance because of it. That’s what the CBO says, anyway, and there are always questions about how they do things.
The AHCA is not full Obamacare repeal like we were promised. So, out of curiosity, which would the CBO score better? The full repeal or the AHCA?
Phil Klein at the Washington Examiner breaks it to the GOP: The full repeal would.
In 2015, CBO evaluated a straight full repeal of Obamacare, without any replacement, and it found that coverage would actually be slightly better than what it would be under the House Republican plan being pushed by Speaker Paul Ryan. Whereas the Ryan plan would, according to the CBO, leave 51 million uninsured in 2025, two years ago, the CBO projected under a full repeal (without a replacement), 50 million would be uninsured. Now, it’s quite possible that the CBO would score full repeal differently now, given a different set of underlying assumptions. But it’s hard to see how the basic picture would change much.
Klein, who is something of an expert on Obamacare (you should really read his book, Overcoming Obamacare), goes on to discuss the main problem here: By keeping the basic regulatory structure of Obamacare in place, you keep costs up. That, coupled with reducing the financial assistance needed to purchase said expensive-as-hell insurance, means you would have fewer people purchasing the insurance.
Full repeal, meanwhile, obliterates that regulatory structure, bringing those higher costs down. Sure, you have fewer people buying insurance because it’s no longer a requirement, but more people could purchase on their own because it won’t be so expensive.
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Which Scored Higher? Full Obamacare Repeal or the AHCA? https://t.co/4Fw0nW8mph
— RedState (@RedState) March 14, 2017
Obamacare forces ppl to buy plans they don't like. GOPcare gives ppl the option of buying plans they dont like with less financial help.
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) March 14, 2017
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