Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2017
The GOP just voted to undo Obamacare without knowing how many people would lose health insurance
4 May 2017 - House Republicans successfully voted to advance a major health-care bill Thursday afternoon without waiting for an official estimate of how the bill will affect the federal government's bottom line or how many Americans could go without insurance under the plan.
No one is sure whether the legislation would save the government money or add to the national debt. Congress's nonpartisan budgetary referees have not had time to put together their usual estimate of the costs and savings, and independent analysts are uncertain about what the results would be.
How many Americans' health insurance could be affected by the bill is also unclear. An earlier version of the legislation would have reduced the number of Americans with health insurance by 24 million, according to the referees at the Congressional Budget Office. Republicans have made changes to the bill to try to maintain coverage for some of those people, but analysts say there has not been enough time to analyse whether the revisions would achieve that goal.
