The Congressional Budget Office has just come out with its scoring for the Republican version of healthcare, which is really less a healthcare bill than a tax cut for the wealthy of quite striking heartlessness. The CBO’s projections, just to give a taste of what its implementation would mean are that as early as 2018 an estimated 14 million people under the age of 65 would be without insurance, and that by 2026 that number would rise to 23 million — the number that is generally getting the most attention. Most of the commentary one reads and hears on healthcare is about who’s covered and how much will it cost. Excruciatingly important to be sure but actually just a piece of the puzzle. Quite apart from the cost to a particularly individual is what kind of healthcare are we really talking about?

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