Ryan to 32M Americans: No Insurance for You

[cali]

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan has published his proposal for downsizing the federal government. In the hours and days to come, you're going to hear a lot of different numbers from his proposal. But let me draw your attention to a figure that's not in there: 32 million. Based on the available information, that's roughly the number of people likely to lose health insurance, relative to current law, if the budget were to become reality.

The spending blueprint calls explicitly for repealing the Affordable Care Act. That means taking insurance away from all of the people who are supposed to get coverage in 2014, when the Act is fully implemented. And Ryan's budget document proposes no alternative mechanism for significantly expanding coverage or making insurance itself more secure.

Back in January, the Congressional Budget Office analyzed what such a change would mean when it produced an estimate of repeal for Speaker John Boehner:

...about 32 million fewer nonelderly people would have health insurance in 2019, leaving a total of about 54 million nonelderly people uninsured. The share of legal nonelderly residents with insurance coverage in 2019 would be about 83 percent, compared with a projected share of 94 percent under current law (and 83 percent currently).

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http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/86269/ryan-budget-repeal-health-32-million-uninsured

[Enthusiast]

1. Both parties suck.

But the Republican Party sucks more than the Democratic Party in orders of magnitude. Why do people vote for cruel representatives of insurance like Paul Ryan?

[AndyTiedye]

4. Because the Tee Vee Tells Them to Vote Republican

must... obey...

[sarcasmo]

2. This country is in the crapper.

[AndyTiedye]

3. But They Also Want to Take Away Medicare and Replace it with Vouchers

that won't be enough to pay for any kind of private insurance.

That will vastly increase the number of uninsured.

[Mimosa]

5. IF the no-exclusions and tax deductions had started this year or in 2012

The rethugs wouldn't have a chance. Obama and Congress themselves screwed it up

[divine_truine]

6. CONGRESS CRITTER RYAN! WHO PAYS FOR YOUR F#@KING HEALTH CARE PLAN?

The American People! THe 'Govt' the gop keep whining about IS THE PEOPLE!

Everything uttered from a republican means the exact opposite OR IS A FLAT out LIE!

Republicans are overreaching, they have no plan for creating jobs, their idea of 'small govt' is BIGGER STATE GOVT 'when gop have majority' & their idea of 'cutting spending' is permanent TAX CUTS to greedy-wealthy who don't need it!

& BTW republicans, WHERE ARE THE TRILLION$ THAT WENT MISSING DURING BUSH' illegitimate time in office that no recent inspector general can explain?

republicans are completely devoid of ideas other than those ideas given to them by koch-whore lobbyists (who end up writing their damnable legislation for them while thinking the american people are not looking)! That strategy might've worked in the past...it won't now! corrupt republicans and their union-busting schtick have all but awakened a sleeping giant!

[Enthusiast]

7. This is the equivalent to

a death sentence for millions of us. This is an actual death panel.