Credit: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg

WASHINGTON — The long awaited Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scoring of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is in and scores show the uninsured losing to deficit reduction.

An estimated 14 million more people under 65 would be uninsured in 2018 compared with current law and by 2026, that number would rise to 23 million, the report said. (emphasis added)

The AHCA, which the House passed on May 4th, also would decrease the deficit by $119 billion from 2017-2026, CBO said Wednesday.

These numbers are in contrast to the CBO’s score on an earlier version of the House bill, which the agency estimated would result in 24 million fewer people having health insurance by the year 2026 and decrease the federal deficit by $141 billion over 10 years, largely by making changes to the Medicaid program and cutting subsidies to individual enrollees on the ACA’s health insurance exchanges.

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