03-16-2017, 02:31 AM
This is a good shorter report on the impacts of the AHCA/Trumpcare proposal as compared to Obamacare. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-...bo-report/
Americans 64 and older making $26,500 per year would see their premiums increase by an estimated 750 percent by 2026. While they are on track to pay $1,700 under the current Obamacare law, the CBO projects the American Health Care Act would force them to pay $14,600, or a whopping 60.6% of their incomes. It's fucking shameful.
Middle-aged lower-income individuals would see their premium increased from 6.4% to 9.1% of their incomes under the proposed AHCA, while 21-year-olds would see a reduction.
On the other hand, those making over $68,500 a year, in all age brackets, would see a reduction in premiums under the proposed AHCA.
So, the AHCA is a proposal that benefits insurance companies, young people, and wealthier Americans while it screws over the middle-aged and elderly lower income individuals. President Trump won the votes of a majority of those demographics and promised them something better for them than Obamacare. AHCA, as it stands, accomplishes the exact opposite.
President Trump and elected Republican officials would be fools if they continue trying to ram this shiite through Congress and label the consistent analyses "fake" or "inaccurate", in my opinion. Even the most ardent Trump supporters would desert him in droves if they work hard or struggle to make ends meet in retirement and wind up unable to afford healthcare because of him.
For those who want to see the Republicans lose seats in the 2018 mid-terms and Trump's 2020 re-election chances greatly diminished, I think seeing them push the AHCA in its current form would be their best chance.
Americans 64 and older making $26,500 per year would see their premiums increase by an estimated 750 percent by 2026. While they are on track to pay $1,700 under the current Obamacare law, the CBO projects the American Health Care Act would force them to pay $14,600, or a whopping 60.6% of their incomes. It's fucking shameful.
Middle-aged lower-income individuals would see their premium increased from 6.4% to 9.1% of their incomes under the proposed AHCA, while 21-year-olds would see a reduction.
On the other hand, those making over $68,500 a year, in all age brackets, would see a reduction in premiums under the proposed AHCA.
So, the AHCA is a proposal that benefits insurance companies, young people, and wealthier Americans while it screws over the middle-aged and elderly lower income individuals. President Trump won the votes of a majority of those demographics and promised them something better for them than Obamacare. AHCA, as it stands, accomplishes the exact opposite.
President Trump and elected Republican officials would be fools if they continue trying to ram this shiite through Congress and label the consistent analyses "fake" or "inaccurate", in my opinion. Even the most ardent Trump supporters would desert him in droves if they work hard or struggle to make ends meet in retirement and wind up unable to afford healthcare because of him.
For those who want to see the Republicans lose seats in the 2018 mid-terms and Trump's 2020 re-election chances greatly diminished, I think seeing them push the AHCA in its current form would be their best chance.