Trumpcare vs. Obamacare: Apocolypse Foretold

Trumpcare vs. Obamacare: Apocolypse Foretold
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The Congressional Budget Office report on Trumpcare is out, and it's devastating: 14 million people losing insurance in the first year, 24 million over time, with premiums soaring for older, lower-income Americans — in many cases, the very people who went strongly for President Trump. The C.B.O. thinks it would reduce the deficit, but only marginally, around $30 billion a year in a $19 trillion economy.

Let me offer one assertion and ask two questions.



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