How the GOP health care plans stack up to Obamacare in 4 charts

By ADAM CANCRYN, TYLER FISHER, SARAH FROSTENSON and JON MCCLURE | 06/26/17 08:30 PM EDT

Americans without health insurance could double by 2026

By 2026, 10 percent of Americans would lack health insurance under Obamacare.

Under both the House and Senate health care plan, that number could grow as high as 18 percent .

The uninsured rate plunged under the ACA, but could climb back up

The Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill would drive up the uninsured rate across all demographics, CBO estimates, but hit low-income Americans the hardest. That could leave almost 30 percent of low-income individuals aged 50-64 without coverage by 2026, with close to 40 percent of low income individuals between 30 and 49 years old going uninsured.

Medicaid: Senate would cut less than the House, but still slash $772 billion over 9 years

The legislation would phase out enhanced funding for Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, and end the whole program’s entitlement status by imposing new limits on federal funding. Those changes amount to an estimated $772 billion cut to the program over a decade, CBO projected, and force states to take on a greater share of the financial responsibility. As a result, the nonpartisan scorekeeping office projected that some states would need to cut Medicaid benefits and restrict the program’s eligibility.

But the GOP health plans would work to reduce the national deficit

The CBO estimates that Senate Republicans’ proposal would cut the deficit by $321 billion over 10 years, far exceeding the $119 billion savings tied to the House-passed repeal bill. That reduction is largely driven by the deep cuts to Medicaid, as well as skimpier aid to those purchasing insurance on the individual market. It also gives GOP leaders plenty of financial room to make changes to the bill aimed at winning over skeptical Republican senators, without sacrificing the repeal of hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes tied to Obamacare.

Source: National Center for Health Statistics and the Congressional Budget Office

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