National Economic Council Directorย Kevin Hassettย said the best way for people to get health insurance is to get a job while discussing the massive tax cut legislation, which dramatically upends health care, signed into lawย by President Trump.
During an appearance on CBS Newsโs โFace The Nation,โ Hasset was asked about Americansโ concerns that about 12 million Americans could lose Medicaid coverage, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
However, Hasset said that the CBO made a similar claim when the Trump administration aimed to add work requirement waivers to Obamacare in 2017, stating that the number of insured people increased instead.
โThe bottom line is, the best way to get insurance is to get a job,โ he said. โAnd weโve got a โbig, beautiful billโ thatโs going to create a lot of job creation and a lot of insurance, and the CBO is just not accounting for that.โ
The bill enacts the countryโs first-ever requirementย for adults under the age of 65 โ including low-income parents of children older than 14 โ to prove they work, volunteer or attend school at least 80 hours per month.
โThe idea that thatโs going to cause a massive hemorrhaging in availability of insurance doesnโt make a lot of sense to us,โ he said.
Hassett also claimed that 5 million of those who are losing insurance have other insurance, which he says the CBO did not take into account
โTheyโre people who have two types of insurance,โ he added. โAnd so therefore, if they lose one, theyโre still insured.โ
Hassett insisted that no one will lose their insurance.
โItโs sound budgetary politics. And I think that nobodyโs going to lose their insurance,โ he said.
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