Congressman Dwight Evans released the following statement after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that under the Senate Republican healthcare bill 22 million Americans stand to lose their coverage.
The projected deficit with the continuation of certain policies is based on several assumptions: first, that most of the provisions of the
Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-312) that originally were enacted
in 2001, 2003, 2009, and 2010 do not expire on December 31, 2012, but instead continue; second, that the alternative minimum tax is
indexed for inflation after 2011; and third, that Medicare’s payment rates for physicians are held constant at their 2011 level.