text: The non-partisan U.S. Congressional Budget Office said under the previous bill  (the one that failed) 24 million people would lose their coverage, and premiums for some elderly would triple. This bill is expected to be worse.
  The 25% cut to medicaid is expected to hit special-education-needs children hard. Medicaid pays for things like speech therapists, behavioral therapists, and certain types of equipment that physically handicapped children need.
  But in Republican eyes these kids are moochers in the system.
  As Speaker Paul Ryan has said many times:  “the fatal conceit” of Obamacare is that healthy people have to pay for sick people.