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Four Reasons Why the CBO's AHCA Score Is Flawed
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[Opinion]
May 30, 2017

"[1] CBO is assuming 4 million more people starting out with insurance than the actual number.... [2] AHCA's CBO score includes the potential enrollment from the 19 states that 'could' expand their Medicaid rules.... [3] While CBO doesn't actually define what constitutes insurance in the score, they insinuate that some states will cut or reduce the number of essential health benefits and cause out-of-pocket limits to rise. Suffice it to say it's amazing that they can't give us this definition yet count a few million people as uninsured because of this definition.... [4] Finally, the CBO score doesn't tell us who doesn't want to buy insurance. Without a mandate any number of people might simply say no thanks. These people aren't losing insurance, they simply don't want it."  MORE >>

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