Health Bill Would Raise Uninsured by 24 Million but Save $337 Billion, Report Says -<br />By THOMAS KAPLANMARCH 13, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — The House Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would raise the number of people without health insurance by 24 million within a decade, but would trim $337 billion from the federal deficit over<br />that time, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Monday.<br />“And when you replace that with, ‘We’re going to have a free market<br />and you buy what you want to buy,’ they’re going to say not nearly as many people are going to do that.”<br />assessment was released, Mr. Trump lauded the Republican health plan Monday at the beginning of<br />a discussion with people the White House described as “victims” of the Affordable Care Act.<br />was right about Obamacare to begin with, there’d be 8 million more people on Obamacare today than there actually are,” President Trump’s budget<br />director, Mick Mulvaney, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” He added, “Sometimes we ask them to do stuff they’re not capable of doing.”<br />The number of people who have signed up for insurance through the health law’s exchanges is lower than expected, in part<br />because employers did not drop coverage to the extent that had been anticipated.<br />While people would not face a penalty for not buying insurance, Republicans would put in place a new provision to encourage continuous coverage: People<br />would face a 30 percent surcharge in their premiums if they signed up for insurance after having gone without it for about two months or more.
