Republicans say that able-bodied adults who don’t work would lose Medicaid coverage under the House tax-cuts-and-spending bill, while Democrats say the legislation would hurt vulnerable groups. The bill’s main target is those able-bodied adults, but other groups would lose coverage due to paperwork burdens and other provisions in the bill, health policy experts say.
A preliminary Congressional Budget Office analysis said that a Republican legislative proposal that makes changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act would leave “at least 8.6 million” people without health insurance by 2034. But many Democrats have exaggerated the figure, claiming that 13.7 million would lose their insurance under the proposal.
Our latest quarterly report on various statistical indicators comes less than three weeks before Election Day.
As Biden enters the final months of his presidency, we look at various statistical measures of what’s happened during his term.
Our latest quarterly update on the state of the U.S. during the Biden presidency.
The most recent statistical measures of how the U.S. has changed since the president took office.
Statistical measures of the president’s term to date.
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While debating 6 feet apart due to the coronavirus outbreak, the two leading contenders offered competing versions of the facts on several key issues.
The spin focused mainly on the economy and health care.