Walker unveils plan for replacing Obama health care law

The GOP contender’s “Day One Patient Freedom Plan” consists of five steps: repealing Obamacare in its entirety, ensuring affordable and accessible health insurance for everyone, making health care more efficient, effective and accountable by empowering the states, increasing quality and choice through innovation, and providing financial stability for families and taxpayers. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal released his plan past year.

Walker, similar to current law, would also provide tax credits to help with the cost of coverage. This would include giving states the ability to run Medicaid and “reorganize it into smaller, focused parts”. The credits would be available to anyone not covered by their employers and vary only based on age – not income – and range between $900 and $3,000.

He would also allow for new health insurance purchasing agreements and deregulate the long-term care insurance market. The sharpest declines occurred with Hispanics, African Americans, and lower-income Americans.

Wisconsin Governor and Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker called for an end to birthright citizenship, but didn’t endorse deporting the US-born children of illegal immigrants in a discussion with MSNBC Political Correspondent Kasie Hunt at the Iowa State Fair on Monday.

The governor has made congressional Republicans’ failure to repeal the health law a central part of his stump speech.

“It’s August, we’re still waiting for that measure”, he added.

“And just like I did in my own state, I am willing to take on anyone – including members of my own party – to get the job done”, he will say.

Walker was not the only Republican presidential candidate to address health care reform this week. Marco Rubio published an op-ed on Monday titled “My Plan to Fix Healthcare” that his press team blasted out hours before Walker’s expected rollout.

Walker is expected to say that, if elected, he would submit legislation to Congress seeking to repeal the federal Affordable Care Act and replace it with his sweeping package of conservative priorities.

I wrote a piece online this weekend about Mike Lee.