Millions of Obamacare registrants will lose health coverage under the Republican political bill, which would make coverage more expensive and more difficult to obtain.
Most of the bills of the bill, which adopted the last chamber, are technical changes – reduction of registration periods, adjustments to additional formulas and requirements. But together, they would leave around four million people not insured over the next 10 years, the Congressal Budget Office reported Wednesday.
“In many ways, this is a kind of repeal by Paper Cut,” said Audrey Morse Gasteier, director of the Massachusetts State market.
In addition to these proposals is another challenge to the program: additional Obamacare funding is set to expire At the end of the year, and the Republicans do not plan to extend it. If they don’t, the CBO estimates 4.2 million additional Americans would lose coverage.
Overall, the changes proposed and the expiration of subsidies could threaten the viability of the Obamacare markets themselves, which have more than tripled since 2014, and currently cover 24 million people.
