Thom's blog
Do Republicans Understand the Point of Healthcare?
The Congressional Budget Office has finally come out with its big analysis of the Republican Party's plan to replace Obamacare, and surprise, surprise, a lot people are going to lose their health insurance if this thing becomes the law - 24 million of them in fact. This is not the big, beautiful healthcare plan that Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail - but what can you expect from people who fundamentally don't understand that healthcare is a right, not a privilege?
So the numbers really aren't good here for Republicans. According to the CBO:
- 14 million will lose health insurance by 2018
- 24 million people will lose health insurance by 2026
- Out-of-pocket costs like deductibles will be higher than under Obamacare
- In total, 6 million more people will be uninsured in 2026 than there were in 2009, leaving a total of 52 million uninsured.
Isn't the ultimate problem here that Republicans are treating healthcare like a commodity and thus a privilege as opposed to a fundamental human right?
-Thom
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