The GOP Healthcare Plan Will Kill Thousands (But, Um, So Does Obamacare)

by Dan Savage
Matt Bruenig has the chart of the day/week/year:
Five separate people were bylined on a Center for American Progress post about how many people AHCA will kill. The post is quite long, but all the authors really do is take the CBO estimates of how many people will lose coverage under AHCA and then divide that number by 830. They do this because there is a study that shows that 1 person dies unnecessarily for every 830 people who lack health insurance. I have duplicated CAP’s e