SHOCKER: This #CBOscore detail 'does not seem very important' to Vox's Matt Yglesias

The Congressional Budget Office released their scoring of the GOP’s “repeal and replace” plan, which is the American Health Care Act:

CBO: 23 million more uninsured by 2026, $119 billion saved from the budget.

— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 24, 2017

Many have pointed out that reports about how many people will “lose” insurance can be misleading:

"Lose" as in "decide not to buy." https://t.co/G8dt8Z7rQ4

— RBe (@RBPundit) May 24, 2017

Very misleading to say "lose." Bulk of those 23 million currently don't have coverage either. https://t.co/fMmuUfnGGT

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 24, 2017

I know it’s subtle, but not unimportant: more people uninsured ≠ people losing coverage.

— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 24, 2017

But that little bit of reality means little to one of Vox’s chief Voxsplainers Matt Yglesias:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/867484197174353920

Odds he’d be a little more concerned with the minutia if it was a story about the millions losing insurance because of Obamacare? Pretty high.

https://twitter.com/The_Greg_Mason/status/867489413328244737

Because one facet of this is that people will choose not to be covered, in the absence of a mandate.

— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 24, 2017

Progressives think “choice” is a good thing, unless it isn’t.