It seems a lot of folk are blase about the risks of the Senate's AHCA because, hey, the only folk being hurt are those freeloaders on Medicaid, amirite?
Except the CBO also noted that 4 million additional Americans would lose health coverage from their employers, too, since the ACA mandate around employers offering insurance would go away, too. Which will put those 4 million Americans out on the streets looking for individual "exchange" insurance policies — which are predicted to be more expensive and cover less than under the ACA.
And none of this goes into the vagaries of what happens if you lose your job (because that never happens) and run out of (very expensive) COBRA coverage and can't afford to buy an individual policy. Let that magic clock pass, and suddenly you can't get insurance again for 6 months, no matter what the need.
This is a case where the US Senate version is demonstrably worse than the House version. But both are pretty much mounds of awful when it comes to Americans having affordable health care.
CBO: 4 million would lose employer health coverage under GOP plan
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) score of the Senate plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare found that 4 million people would lose employer-provided coverage in 2018.
All of which, of course drives up the cost of healthcare overall. Since those without coverage will use e-room hospital visits as their plan.
What a sham. Healthcare shouldn't be an industry.
The most ironic part? Those actually making the "laws" have very little to worry about. If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, members of Congress have a fallback plan. They would be able to return to the FEHBP. Twenty million other Americans won’t.
https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/affordable-care-act/