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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Healthcare: The Affordable Health Care for America Act

The Congressional Budget Office said about the "Affordable Health Care for America Act" proposed by the Republican House minority leader on November 3, 2009 ...
By 2019, CBO and JCT estimate, the number of nonelderly people without health insurance would be reduced by about 3 million relative to current law, leaving about 52 million nonelderly residents uninsured. The share of legal nonelderly residents with insurance coverage in 2019 would be about 83 percent, roughly in line with the current share."

... some provisions of the legislation would tend to decrease the premiums paid by all insurance enrollees, while other provisions would tend to increase the premiums paid by less healthy enrollees ...

See the letter to John A. Boehner by Douglas W. Elmendorf, November 4, 2009

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