<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i>the Republican majority (55-45) working together, can’t get the minority party to reopen government.</i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><b style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif">You've got it backwards. The </font></b></span><b><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Democratic minority  (55-45) working together, can’t get the majority party to reopen government.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> All the Republicans need to do is change the provisions in the homoeroticly named "Big Beautiful Bill" that would cause millions of Americans to lose their health insurance. How many millions? I asked Claude that and this is what he she or it said: </span></font></b></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="gmail-flex-1 gmail-flex gmail-flex-col gmail-gap-3 gmail-px-4 gmail-max-w-3xl gmail-mx-auto gmail-w-full gmail-pt-1"><div><div style="height:auto;opacity:1"><div class="gmail-group gmail-relative gmail-pb-3" style="opacity:1"><div class="gmail-font-claude-response gmail-relative gmail-leading-[1.65rem] gmail-[&_pre>div]:bg-bg-000/50 gmail-[&_pre>div]:border-0.5 gmail-[&_pre>div]:border-border-400 gmail-[&_.ignore-pre-bg>div]:bg-transparent gmail-[&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 gmail-[&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8 gmail-[&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 gmail-[&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8"><div class="gmail-grid-cols-1 gmail-grid gmail-gap-2.5 gmail-[&_>_*]:min-w-0 gmail-standard-markdown"><p class="gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-break-words">Based on the available information, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will result in <u>1</u><b style=""><u>6 million more uninsured Americans </u>by 2034 </b></p>
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<li class="gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-break-words">7.8 million more uninsured from Medicaid changes </li>
<li class="gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-break-words">3.1 million more uninsured from provisions affecting the ACA Marketplaces </li>
<li class="gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-break-words">900,000 more uninsured from codifying Trump Administration marketplace rules </li>
<li class="gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-break-words">4.2 million more uninsured if enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of 2025 </li>
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<p class="gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-break-words">To put this in percentage terms: the U.S. currently has approximately 330 million people, so 16 million represents roughly <strong><u>4-5% of the total U.S. population</u></strong> who would lose coverage by 2034.<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-break-words"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-break-words"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">John K Clark</font></span><br></span></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8651326670662992159"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8651326670662992159WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>