Zeke Emanuel: 4 Million People Will Lose Health Insurance After GOP Repealed ACA Mandate

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EMANUEL: "Look, that is going to have an effect. We're going to see four million people lose their health insurance and many people face substantially higher premiums. They estimate it's about cutting out the mandate and the four million people losing coverage and not contributing to the system is actually going to increase premiums for a lot of people in the exchanges by about 10 percent. That is a substantial increase. And remember, those people -- those families that aren't getting a federal government subsidy -- those people are the people who are going to be hit the hardest because they have to pay the full cost of the health coverage. And that, if it goes up another 10 percent, is a real hit to people. That's why when the Republicans say people will choose whether they get health coverage or not. It's not a choice. If you can't afford it because the Republicans have just jacked up rates by repealing the cautionary subsidies and repealing the mandate -- they've actually jacked up the rates by about 20 percent. This is TrumpCare. You're seeing how ugly it is. By the end of the tax -- by 2026, we're going to see about 13 million people -- Americans -- have less health insurance. That hardly sounds like progress in this country. And most Americans now have been very clear they think everyone in the country ought to get health insurance and if they can't afford it themselves, their employers are not giving it to them, then they, the government, should help. And the Republicans are doing a very good job of stripping that away. It's not going to be very popular in the country when people are suffering, and some people will die because they don't have health insurance."