On the day that Professor Leighton Ku and his GW Health Policy and Management team published their predictions for the economic consequences of the American Health Care Act, NBC News published them.
The piece included Ku’s observations that “the AHCA would initially cause a brief spurt of economic growth from tax cuts, which primarily help those with high incomes…. however, cuts in funding for Medicaid and health subsidies then begin to deepen, triggering sharp job losses and broad disruption of state economies in the following years.”
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