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.