The combination of the AHCA and the Trump administration’s budget would hollow out America’s safety net that has evolved since the New Deal and the Great Society. The Congressional Budget Office and the American Health Care ActThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a nonpartisan congressional agency created in the early 1970s during the Nixon administration. Indeed, the CBO’s dire prediction for America’s uninsured under the American Health Care Act is made significantly worse by the Trump administration’s recently released budget. The bipartisan and popular Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is slated for a 21 percent cut as well as significant reductions in eligibility. Much remains to be done to improve the American health care system.

Source: Huffington Post May 26, 2017 03:33 UTC