MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Lori Montgomery, Washington Post online, today. Of note:
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As a result of the court’s decision, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now expects that some states will refuse to fully expand their Medicaid programs or will not do so immediately when most provisions of the law take effect in 2014.
In those states, people who earn 100 percent to 138 percent of the federal poverty level will be eligible to receive government subsidies to obtain private insurance on newly created insurance exchanges. But people who earn less than the full poverty level could be left in the cold, the CBO said.
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Factoring in other changes, the total cost of the coverage expansion would be $1.168 trillion, the CBO said, compared with an original estimate of $1.252 trillion — a net reduction of $84 billion.
The CBO said the entire package of tax changes and health insurance provisions would also continue to reduce the nation’s budget deficit over the next decade. In a separate report, the agency said a Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act in its entirety would increase deficits by $109 billion over the next decade.
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