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CBO: Senate GOP health-care bill would leave 22 million more people uninsured by 2026

The Washington Post: Senate Republicans’ bill to erase major parts of the Affordable Care Act would cause an estimated 22 million more Americans to be uninsured by the end of the coming decade, while reducing federal spending by $321 billion during that time, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The forecast issued Monday by Congress’s nonpartisan budget scorekeepers appeared to rapidly erode Republicans’ confidence in the bill, with at least four GOP lawmakers saying by late Monday that they would vote against even starting debate on it. The projection of uninsured numbers and federal spending had been awaited as a crucial piece of evidence while Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other Republican leaders try to hurry a vote on the bill this week. They have been navigating an expanding minefield of resistance from their party’s moderate and conservative wings, while Democrats are united against the measure.

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