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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
lashed out at the American Healthcare Act—the House GOP’s proposed
replacement for the Affordable Care Act—on Twitter after independent
Congressional Budget Office revealed the act would trim the deficit but
could leave millions uninsured.
The CBO found that the iteration of the bill that cleared the House earlier this month would leave fewer people without care and depress individual premium prices more than the version that foundered
without a vote in March. The measure’s cuts to Medicaid and elimination
of Obamacare subsidies would save the federal government $119 billion
between now and 2026, the report found.
But those savings would come at the expense of an additional 23
million people lacking any form of coverage—which Schumer and Gillibrand
highlighted on social media.
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