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Originally Posted by Guest
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If you read this article, it completely contradicts the title.
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The CBO said it and the Joint Committee on Taxation "estimate that, in 2018, 15 million more people would be uninsured under this legislation than under current law — primarily because the penalty for not having insurance would be eliminated."
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But Ryan was asked about the 22 million figure, which is the estimate for 2026.
That estimate was the sum of two groups — a Medicaid group totalling 15 million people, and the non-group insurance market amounting to 7 million people.
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If I'm reading this correctly, the CBO (which is wrong more often than it is right) has stated at an additional 22 million people would be uninsured and that 15 million of them would be uninsured because the penalty for not having insurance would be lifted. That certainly sounds like the vast majority, or as Speaker Ryan says, "MOST", would be uninsured by choice.