Rustic
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Bingo!!The GOP leadership is very confused. They assumed that with the announcement of millions of Americans losing their healthcare and billionaires getting hundreds of billions of dollars, the GOP base would have this reaction.
Instead, once it became known that millions would lose their healthcare, many Americans give this reaction:
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today warned lawmakers that 15 million people will lose medical coverage next year if the Senate GOP’s health-care bill becomes law.
That’s not quite accurate. CBO doesn’t believe that millions will “lose” their insurance in 2018. Instead, the agency thinks that millions will happily cancel their coverage — even those who get it for free. The reason: The Senate bill would repeal the Obamacare tax penalty on the uninsured, known as the individual mandate.
Supporters of Obamacare proclaim that the law has reduced the number of people who lack coverage. They’re right. Government surveys show that the number of non-elderly uninsured people fell from 44.3 million in December 2013 (the month before Obamacare took full effect) to 28.2 million at the end of last year. That’s 16 million fewer uninsured people over a period of only three years, a genuine public-policy achievement.
But here’s the catch: If CBO is to be believed, 15 million people didn’t want health coverage in the first place. They enrolled only to keep the IRS off their backs.
In its analysis of the Senate bill, CBO predicts that repealing the tax on the uninsured would next year induce 7 million people to cancel their individual insurance policies, 4 million to drop their job-based coverage, and 4 million others to abandon Medicaid, even though the government provides it free of charge in most cases.
If CBO is right, these 15 million Americans would take immediate advantage of a provision freeing them from the obligation to obtain a product they neither want nor feel they need.
Read more at: Free the Obamacare 15 Million
And the progressives, the control freaks they are cannot stand not controlling those they disagree with this…