Paul Ryan’s Plan To Make America Uninsured Again

Six years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, House Republicans finally have a plan to replace it. Well, not quite a plan — they prefer to call it a “broad outline.”

The outline, released by House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday, consists of a cobbled-together greatest hits list of all the GOP’s bad ideas over the past few years — now, all in a single paper. All that’s missing is any indication of how many people would be covered compared to the ACA, or how much they would have to pay, or how much the proposals would cost. Or, of course, any admission that millions of people would lose coverage under these proposals.

Luckily, we don’t have such an information deficit when it comes to the impact of the ACA: we know that 20 million people have gained coverage, and the uninsured rate has fallen to a historic low of 9.1 percent. Let’s see how Speaker Ryan’s ideas measure up...
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