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... today's CBO score is low in part because we've made some of the policy worse. It would be a good thing for 15 million Americans to move from employer-based insurance to the exchanges. It would be a good thing for 60 million Americans to do so. But no one knows how to pass that bill. So here we are.
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Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Given the composition of the exchanges that HELP is contemplating, CBO estimates that by 2019, they will have 27 million Americans enrolled. That’s not all that many. And the public plan will be one of the many options on the exchanges. So imagine that a bit more than half enter the public plan — which I’d suggest is optimistic. That’s 15 million or so people in the plan. That’s not a small number, but nor is it a number likely to lead to real changes in the health-care system.
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