re: #142 darthstar

The CBO/JCT, which is the official bean counter for scoring federal legislation says that a repeal will cost far more than any GOPer is willing to admit and mirrors the other analysis. It will not save any money. And that savings is the entire crux of the GOP argument.

There’s no savings. Only costs, and taxpayers will bear those costs - directly and indirectly.

Hospitals will see reimbursements drop because indigent care explodes as an issue (the same problem forcing hospitals in to bankruptcy before the ACA).

Patients will see higher costs both in premiums and in loss of transparency *such as it is now* for what procedures cost. People will see higher costs for policies on the individual market because whatever meager purchasing power the marketplace created under the ACA will disappear, and insurers will provide crap policies that cover little to nothing, and the burden falls on to people who get catastrophic illnesses or accidents.

Who benefits from all this? Rich folks who see yet another tax cut. The poor get screwed. Those who got marketplace plans will be screwed. Those who got into Medicare expansion get screwed. The more than 20 million people who gained coverage will be screwed. Insurers will also get screwed paradoxically since they lose federal subsidies that flowed to them from the insureds.

This is the GOP math.