The CBO report finds that under the American Health Care Act, which repeals the Affordable Care Act signed into law by former President Barack Obama, 14 million more people would be uninsured than under current law by 2018.

"GOP Health Plan Would Hit Rural Areas Hard"

Poor, older Americans would see largest increase in insurance-coverage costs, analysis shows

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The House Republican effort to overhaul the Affordable Care Act could hit many rural areas particularly hard, according to a new analysis, sharply increasing the cost for some residents buying their own insurance.

In extreme cases, the amount a consumer might owe for a plan could exceed that person's annual income. In Nebraska's Chase County, a 62-year-old currently earning about $18,000 a year could pay nearly $20,000 annually to get health-insurance coverage under the House GOP plan — compared with about $760 a year that person would owe toward premiums under the ACA, an analysis by Oliver Wyman showed.

The consulting firm, a unit of Marsh & McLennan Cos. is the first to project what consumers could actually have to pay to get health plans under the House's blueprint. The analysis looked at the cost of a benchmark insurance plan at the "silver" level under both setups.

Among people who currently have ACA benchmark plans, Oliver Wyman found those who are older and have lower incomes would generally see their costs for similar coverage increase the most under the House bill. Some with higher wages, and certain younger consumers, would likely do better financially under the new regime. Both urban and rural 35-year-olds making about $54,000 a year, for instance, could on average save roughly $3,000 annually, the analysis showed.

Of the 100 counties where 62-year-olds earning around $36,000 would see the biggest jump in annual costs, 97 were rural. "It is disproportionately affecting the rural," said Dianna Welch, an actuary at Oliver Wyman.

The dynamic may present a political challenge for Republicans, because many rural regions strongly supported President Donald Trump.

A Wall Street Journal analysis of Oliver Wyman's data shows that 62-year-olds currently earning about $18,000 a year would see a bump in annual premiums of more than $10,000 in 41% of counties won by Mr. Trump last November, and in 28% of counties won by Hillary Clinton. […] Morning Star Independent Investment Research

H/T: Wall Street Journal

A lot of low-income voters believed Trump when he promised to make America great. They’re in for a rude awakening.

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Donald Trump ran on a series of impossible promises, but enough people believed he could deliver on them that he won the Electoral College. His supporters are in for what might be the rudest awakening in recent political history.

Trump’s not going to make coal cheaper than natural gas and bring back a bunch of mining jobs. He might be able to negotiate some new riders for NAFTA, but they’ll be guided by the same corporate lobbyists who effectively wrote it in the first place, and won’t do anything to bring back jobs that have been sent overseas. There will be no 35 percent tariff on imports from Mexico or China.

The exit polls show that Trump beat Clinton among affluent voters, and Americans up and down the economic ladder responded to his dog whistles, or at least voted for their party despite the bigotry displayed by its nominee.

But Trump made huge gains over Mitt Romney among those making $30,000 or less, and benefited from a major urban-rural divide. And it’s the rural poor who put him over the top in key swing states who are going to be hit especially hard by the coming bait and switch. […] – Joshua Holland, writer at The Nation

So instead of Trump delivering a plan that provides "better insurance at lower premiums and lower deductibles" as he had promised during his entire campaign, he supports Paul Ryan's plan which in actuality is nothing more than Obamacare with a few minor changes which will have devastating effects on millions of (mostly) poor and working-class Older White Trump voters. While also giving a massive "$275 BILLION dollar tax break" to the top 4.4% of wealthiest Americans.

Source- Politifact http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statement…

DJ:
Is Obamacare Lite what America has been waiting for? Do Republicans need to go back to the drawing board and redesign health care for America? Or, should the GOP stop playing politics with our health and simply return to the original Obamacare? […]

Trump voters are fine with whatever he does. They voted for him knowing full well he's full of sh*t so let them live with that decision.

As for the rest of America, it would be in Our best interest for Repubs and Dems to set aside partisan politics and work together to make Obamacare better.

DJ this line said it all right here. The Repubs are so jealous of Obama's popularity they had to ruin his signature program. No matter they didn't have anything to replace it, they still rushed something out just to make it look like they had a plan all along. The whole thing is awful and they are about to put a lot of people in a health crisis. Something tells me we will end up back with Obamacare instead of this lite BS Repubs put out.