A new analysis of the Senate-introduced Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) shows that the number of uninsured Americans would increase by 24.7 million by 2022, including 324,000 in Connecticut.
The analysis was prepared by researchers at the Urban Institute with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and released today, a day after Senate leadership delayed voting on its bill until after the July Fourth holiday to try to build Republican support that currently is lacking for the bill to pass.
A similar Urban Institute analysis of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) shows an increase of 23 million more uninsured Americans the same year, including 307,000 in Connecticut.
Nationally, the reports find that federal Medicaid funding for the nonelderly under the BCRA would decrease $102.2 billion by 2022. In Connecticut, funding would fall $1.84 billion.
Nationally, federal funding for Medicaid would be $105.4 billion lower in 2022 under the AHCA. In Connecticut, funding would fall $1.82 billion.
The state-level analyses show that states that had the largest coverage gains under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would see the largest increases in the number of uninsured residents under both the AHCA and BCRA. For example: Connecticut would increase from 5.9 percent uninsured under current law to 17 percent under the BCRA and 16.4 percent under the AHCA.
