Thune Statement on CBO’s Report on the Senate Health Care Discussion Draft

Pat Powers

Thune Statement on CBO’s Report on the Senate Health Care Discussion Draft

“Today’s Congressional Budget Office report confirms that the Senate health care bill will soon start lowering premiums for millions of Americans …”

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) issued the following statement regarding the Congressional Budget Office’s report on the Senate health care discussion draft:

“Today’s Congressional Budget Office report confirms that the Senate health care bill will soon start lowering premiums for millions of Americans relative to the unsustainable premium increases under the broken Obamacare system,” said Thune. “This legislation does away with the burdensome Obamacare mandates and taxes affecting the middle class and hardworking families — giving Americans the freedom to choose the health insurance that best fits their needs. The bill stabilizes insurance markets collapsing under Obamacare, improves the affordability of health insurance, preserves care for those with pre-existing conditions, and ensures those on Medicaid don’t have the rug pulled out from under them. Americans have suffered under Obamacare for long enough. This bill will enable them to access more affordable, patient-centered health care.”

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8 thoughts on “Thune Statement on CBO’s Report on the Senate Health Care Discussion Draft”

  1. So unlike President Obama, who promised us that we could keep our doctors and insurance policies then it turned out not to be true, you are now willing to promise “that the Senate health care bill will soon start lowering premiums for millions of Americans,” huh? Okay, if this bill passes, then we will remember that in 2022 😉

    But if the Senate bill creates 22 million more uninsured by 2026, then how can you say that the Senate bill “ensures those on Medicaid don’t have the rug pulled out from under them….?”

  2. EC, I believe whatever the GOP passes it will end up being a real stinker and Americans are going to raise hell. Inevitably we will end up with a single payer health system here in the US.

    1. Miranda,

      Exactly! That is the great irony of the GOPs attempt to fix or replace ObamaCare. Because both the House and Senate bills return us to a greater dependency upon a curative health care system versus a preventative health care system, which, the latter, ObamaCare was initiating.

      The removal of 23 million (House version) or 22 million (Senate version) from Medicaid by 2026 will merely mean sicker people in the future whose only primary care will be from the ER and or after their aliment has become full blown, which will result in greater costs for the health care system, because most of those potential patients will not be able to pay their medical bills on their own and it will bankrupt hospitals and States over the new staggering costs. And the net result of all of this, if the GOP prevails, is that the crisis which will result from this return to a greater curative approach to our health care system will end up expediting our nations movement towards a single payer health care system. While ObamaCare, if properly funded and supported, with the funding of insurance company risk pools being properly funded especially, would actually slow that eventuality and such slowness would probably give greater room in the future for the creation of a health care system which not only promotes preventive health care but also more choice, because it would be a health care system which would have the luxury of time to design a fairer and freer form of single payer health care in the future for all Americans.

      But in the name of political expediency, the GOP are merely offering a replacement plan that fools the upper middle income into thinking that they have solved the problems of ObamaCare, when actually the greater GOP advocation for a curative health care system will eventually comeback to bite us all and eventually force the upper middle income into a single pay system in the future with less choice than ObamaCare would have taken us to…..

  3. Wow, Johnny T displays a mastery of cherrypicking here. “This legislation does away with…mandates…and taxes…” but he neglects to mention it also does away with subsidies to and protections for the middle class and poor, as well as shifting focus from preventive care. As for “the Senate health care bill will soon start lowering premiums…” WTF? There hasn’t even been another asinine Rose Garden party yet! Um, this “Senate health care bill” is far from law. Besides, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office in March said O’Care’s exchanges are stable for the foreseeable future. It’s Trumpo and the Republikans that are going out of their way to kill it by sabotage.

    If “T” and his Repubs were serious about fixing health care, they’d give up this 7-year mantra of the only way is to begin with repeal. If they were to propose serious health care reform, they’d be able to get Democrats to work with them. Unfortunately, all T and the Repubs want to do is reverse everything President Obama did, rather than honestly try to improve on it.

    1. All the Dems want is to “resist” and obstruct anything concerning Trump; they openly admit this. If the Dems were serious about fixing the problems caused by Obamacare (remember it was passed based on lies, bribes, and stolen elections that have been proven), they would work with Reps to do so. However, apparently they are more concerned with obstruction and resistance and their own political futures than the good of the people they supposedly champion.

      1. The Democratic Leader, Schumer, today asked for a 100 Senator meeting with the President at the White House over health care. The ball is now in the GOP’s court……. 😉

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