Their basic goal on health care, as with the rest of their agenda, is to scale back government spending, taxes and regulations of private industry. That serves their interest in shrinking government — which, in their telling, leads to a more efficient, ultimately more humane health care system.
But there's no escaping the basic math of health care, which is that lots of people can't get insurance without public programs or financial assistance from government. That is why projections in 2017 consistently showed Republican repeal alternatives would cause the number of uninsured Americans to skyrocket — and why it's safe to assume that repeal would have the same results now...
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