Kicking 24 million Americans off health care just wasn't unseemly enough for Republicans the first time around, so now they’ve devised something crueler: Making premiums so high for the people who need healthcare the most, that they can't afford it.

The idea is to take people who have illnesses (i.e. pre-existing conditions) out of the regular pool of insured people and relegate them to higher risk pools. This inevitably jacks up insurance costs for the sickest people because insurers must spend more money on their health care—an expense they pass on to the insured.

So here's a look from the Center for American Progress at just how much more we're talking about, and it ain't chump change.

Just to pull out a few numbers: Any woman who had a pregnancy without major complications (i.e. is a mom) would see a 425 percent premium increase, or $17,000-plus more; having asthma will cost people a 106 percent premium increase, or $4,000 more; having major depressive and bipolar disorders will cost people a 208 percent premium increase, or nearly $8,500 more. In explaining the exploding premiums, Greg Sargent writes: