{"id":8559,"date":"2017-11-09T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8559"},"modified":"2017-11-09T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:46:56","slug":"cbo-repealing-health-coverage-mandate-would-save-338-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8559","title":{"rendered":"CBO: Repealing Health Coverage Mandate Would Save $338 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alison Kodjak for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Getting rid of the requirement that everyone in the country have health insurance coverage would save the government $338 billion over the next decade, according to a Congressional Budget Office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/115th-congress-2017-2018\/reports\/53300-individualmandate.pdf\">analysis<\/a>\u00a0released Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/11\/08\/562923470\/cbo-repealing-health-coverage-mandate-would-save-338-billion?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=58266574&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_se_JiW9KIofvxLxlkyLuoFM59JckG6nfe25oRot6_Kjw4Ighq72c7b0MRp0X1DU-uy1rSy5KkNYX4d92_FMqvE7TgNQ&amp;_hsmi=58266574\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alison Kodjak for NPR) Getting rid of the requirement that everyone in the country have health insurance coverage would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8560,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions\/8560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}