HOW GOP HEALTHCARE PLAN WOULD LEAVE 7+ MILLION CITIZENS WITH NO HEALTH INSURANCE ...! (1343 hits)
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As pressure mounts on the Trump administration and congressional GOP leaders to come up with a replacement for Obamacare that won't lead to huge losses in health care coverage for Americans, a new study presented at the National Governors Association over the weekend suggests that millions would be hurt under an emerging House GOP plan.
The analysis prepared by the health research firm Avalere Health and the consulting firm McKinsey and Company doesn't offer nationwide projections for declines in coverage if the House Republican plan were approved by Congress as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act. However, the analysis -- first reported Saturday by VOX -- indicates that there could be reductions of 30 percent to 50 percent in the number of individual market enrollees based on hypothetical state models. As it stands, the average retention rate of Obamacare insurance is 76-80 percent or a 16- 20 percent drop annually from signup to paying for premiums.
Still, if those projections are extrapolated nationwide, it suggests that many of the 7.7 million people who obtained health coverage through the exchanges would no longer be able to afford it.
