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$350 billion over a decade for Obamacare marketplace subsidies
Reversal of $1 trillion in expanded Medicaid subsides to states as scheduled under original Obamacare legislation that were eliminated on schedule by the OBBB but extended by the Chinese Disease Panic.
With smaller items it comes to $1.5 trillion over a decade. These include:
the Democrat bill would repeal “Subtitle B of title VII” of the BBB. This part of the bill contains the following provisions that limit healthcare handouts to aliens. Unless Democrats rescind them, CBO estimates that over the next 10 years they will save taxpayers about:
$91.4 billion by preventing illegal immigrants and other non-citizens like temporary workers from receiving Obamacare benefits. (This is section 71301 of the BBB.)
$34.6 billion by preventing states like California from using a tax kickback scheme to obtain more federal money for Medicaid, which is fungible and can be used to fund comprehensive Medicaid coverage for illegal immigrants, as California does for 1.7 million aliens. (Section 71117 of the BBB.)
$28.2 billion by ending an Obamacare provision that gives extra federal money to states like California for emergency room services and childbirths for illegal immigrants. (Section 71110 of the BBB.)
$27.3 billion by preventing illegal immigrants and other non-citizens from receiving special Obamacare benefits given to poor people who are typically ineligible for Medicaid due to their immigration status. (Section 71302 of the BBB.)
$6.2 billion by preventing illegal immigrants and other non-citizens like refugees from receiving comprehensive Medicaid. (Section 71109 of the BBB.)
$5.1 billion by preventing illegal immigrants and other non-citizens from receiving Medicare benefits for elderly people. (Section 71201 of the BBB.)
In total, these figures amount to $193 billion that the Democrat bill would give to illegal immigrants and other non-citizens over the next 10 years.
This is 13% of the $1.5 trillion that Democrats are demanding in exchange for keeping the government open for just one month.
The big ticket item is expanded Medicaid. That is, "free" health insurance / care for persons unable or unwilling to buy an Obamacare policy that meet a minimum income threshold. Note, that it is almost entirely
BLUE states that went 'all in' on expanded Medicaid. Few red states chose to adopt the plan because they saw it would be unsustainable without massive tax increases in the long run. Blue, Democrat, states expected the subsidies to eventually be made permanent, as the Democrats have wanted and Schumer does now, but it isn't happening.
Thus, the Democrats are in a panic over the coming crash and burn their states will be in over the failure of Obamacare and why they're demanding $1.5 trillion in new spending.
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