10 ways the House healthcare bill cuts federal revenue
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Congress' nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation on Wednesday released its estimate of the revenue impact of the tax provisions in the House Republicans' American Health Care Act.
It received less attention than the Congressional Budget Office's report on the bill's cost and coverage impact, which came out at the same time.
The AHCA would repeal or delay the Affordable Care Act's revenue provisions for financing the law's insurance coverage expansions and benefit enhancements. In total, the Joint Committee on Taxation found that the bill's tax provisions would slash federal revenue by $662.6 billion from 2017 through 2026.
Meanwhile, the CBO found that the bill's reductions in federal Medicaid spending and its repeal of the ACA's premium and cost-sharing subsidies would cut federal outlays by a total of about $1.1 trillion over 10 years.
Here are the specific 10-year sources of revenue reduction as estimated by the Joint Committee on Taxation:
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