{"id":23896,"date":"2017-08-15T19:44:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T19:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23896"},"modified":"2017-08-15T19:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T19:44:39","slug":"cbo-weighs-in-again-not-good-for-aca-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23896","title":{"rendered":"CBO weighs in again: not good for ACA repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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That doggone Congressional Budget Office has done it again.<\/p>\n

It has released a report that suggests an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act — even through a back-door process — is doomed to cost Americans more than many of them can afford.<\/p>\n

The CBO reports that Donald Trump’s threat to repeal the “cost-sharing” payments to Americans seeking health insurance under the ACA is going to cause premiums to skyrocket. Such a repeal also would balloon the deficit by $194 billion over the next decade.<\/p>\n

The president has made the threat as a way to get congressional Democrats to bargain with Republicans after the GOP repeal\/replace effort failed in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

The payments provide Americans a way to afford health insurance. They subsidize insurance companies as well, giving them a chance to provide coverage to Americans who otherwise could not afford it.<\/p>\n

As I’ve noted already, my wife and I have benefited directly from the payments provided under the ACA and I am appalled that the president would threaten to cut them off, to use them as a bargaining tool — or, if you’ll accept this description, as a political football.<\/p>\n

I’m glad the CBO has lined up on the side of Americans — such as yours truly — who want the president and Congress to improve the ACA, not repeal it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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That doggone Congressional Budget Office has done it again. It has released a report that suggests an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act — even through a back-door process — is doomed to cost Americans more than many of them can afford. The CBO reports that Donald Trump’s threat to repeal the “cost-sharing” payments … Continue reading CBO weighs in again: not good for ACA repeal<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[131,885,6559,1424],"class_list":["post-23896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-aca","tag-cbo","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23897,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23896\/revisions\/23897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}