Maybe now the GOP will get something done

[Faster horses]

American people are getting fed up with the RINOs in the Republican party. Maybe 'money talks' will make a difference--they've wasted half a year so far; while Trump is working diligently. It's gotta be frustrating.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/koch-urgency-conservative-network-fears-closing-window-075811642--election.html

"Get Obamacare repealed and replaced, get tax reform passed," Deason said in a pointed message to GOP leaders. "You control the Senate. You control the House. You have the presidency. There's no reason you can't get this done. Get it done and we'll open it back up."

 

[Steve]

It seems the CBO numbers are a big hangup.,... but they could manipulate that if they were smart..

The bill repeals the individual mandate, which requires all Americans to obtain health insurance if they can afford it or else face penalties. Without the mandate, many healthy people are expected to drop coverage.

The CBO's addiction to the individual mandate

The only way to explain these three results from the CBO model—nearly identical coverage numbers despite substantially divergent resources directed to low-income individuals to afford coverage—is to remember that the CBO's model is heavily tied to the idea that the individual mandate is forcing all sorts of people to buy coverage that otherwise would not.

In the latest report, the CBO estimates that 15 million people would voluntarily drop out of the market in 2018 due to the repeal of the mandate. That's nearly three-quarters of the total coverage loss, in one year.

those numbers are counted towards the 22 million.

From June.. same problem.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is taking issue with a Congressional Budget Report showing the Senate's healthcare reform plan will leave 22 million without coverage, saying the numbers would naturally drop when people are no longer mandated to buy coverage.

"What they are basically saying at the Congressional Budget Office is if you are not going to force people to buy Obamacare, if you are not going to force people to buy something they don't want, then they won't buy it,"

Further, he insisted that it 's "not that people are getting pushed off the plan," but it's "that people will choose not to buy something they don't like or want, and that's the difference here."

simply repeal the mandate NOW, .let those numbers drop, and work with the more realistic CBO numbers in the next round.

"We have been hit with double-digit premium increases in Obamacare, which is one of the reasons why people are paying the penalty and not even buying the insurance," said Ryan. "[It's] one of the reasons why the system is in a collapse right now. The key is to give people more choices, have more competition. Bring premiums down.

want to see how ridicules the CBO numbers are.. repeal no replacement.. 22 million
repeal and replace,.. 22 to 23 million... say what?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2017/06/27/cbo-predictions-about-the-senate-health-care-bill-are-deeply-flawed/#3d35f58779d4

You read that right. The earlier GOP bill that included no replacement would reduce coverage by 22 million, whereas a bill with a $375 billion replacement would reduce coverage by 23 million.

There's a simple way for Republicans to highlight the CBO's mandate mania: have CBO score one version of the bill with an individual mandate, and one version without. It'll make as plain as day what those of us who follow this stuff see up close: that the mandate is the secret sauce driving the CBO's faulty coverage predictions.

alot easier to deal with 7 million then 22 million the CBO ties it's predictions to. I say repeal the mandate NOW.