The sickening human cost of the GOP's health-care bill

How the American Health Care Act cripples the old, sick, and poor to help the young and healthy

Who benefits from the AHCA?
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The topline number of the Congressional Budget Office's score of the GOP's American Health Care Act is just brutal: 23 million more Americans would lose health coverage by 2026 under the GOP plan, compared to if America just kept ObamaCare. But dig a little deeper, and you'll find some more positive-sounding numbers in the nonpartisan CBO's report.

For people who buy their insurance individually (as in, they don't receive it through an employer or government program like Medicaid), premiums in many parts of the country would fall after 2020, sometimes by as much as 30 percent.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.