So not the CBO, but different 'entities with reason to know' (insurance experts, healthcare watchdog groups) are coming out with their estimates of how Trumpcare will affect the American People. And it's pretty bleak devastating. And it's going to strike hard at Trump's fan base.
One thing they're all agreeing on is that there will be a massive number of truly needful people (not just the 'needy', but also people 'doing ok', who simply don't have the extra income to pay such a hike) who will lose their insurance through inability to pay, jacked up co-pays and/or pre-existing conditions. And that a huge percentage of 'not needful' people (including DH and I) are going to get a nice fat tax credit that we don't really need.
And yet when confronted with this impartial evidence, the Trumpsters (rhymes with Dumpsters
) we know greet it with 'but Trump says....' and 'the Dems are........'. I just want to scream "Hey, idiots. I'm not Chicken Little. And this time the sky really, really IS falling!!!".
If anything remotely like the current measure is passed, a couple of them will be OK. But there are some who are going to wake up one morning crying "I have no insurance!!! What happened???". And as ashamed as it will make me, they will get a big fat "I TOLD YOU SO" from me.