Tuesday, July 24, 2012

CBO: Court ruling cuts cost of health-care law, but leaves 3 million more uninsured - The Washington Post

In its June 28 ruling, the court upheld the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, but struck down its plan to require states to expand their Medicaid programs to cover poor people who earn as much as 138 percent of the federal poverty level. ….

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.

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