Scott Walker Releases Health Care Plan, Hits Washington Republicans

Walker said if he is elected, he will send a proposal to Congress on the first day of his presidency that would repeal and replace the law with legislation that would provide tax credits to Americans of all income levels who don’t have employer-sponsored insurance.

Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director for the UW Population Health Institute, said the Walker plan’s tax credits to buy insurance, protections for people with pre-existing conditions and flexibility for people who switch jobs are similar to parts of the Affordable Care Act.

Walker’s plan does not include cost figures or an estimate of the number of people who would be covered making it impossible to compare his plan to Obamacare, which insures about 16 million uninsured people and millions of underinsured.

Pro-life Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker has unveiled a new plan to repeal Obamacare, which pro-life groups steadfastly oppose because it funds abortions and can lead to rationing health care.

The plan would also award tax credits to people so they could set up health savings accounts.

The Walker plan’s sliding scale for tax credits would be based on age rather than income, as is the case with Obamcare.

“This gives one a method to purchase an economical medical care decide”, he explained within a wedding speech in Minnesota, creating the plan’s tax credits. “To offset these improvements”, the plan says,”we would simplify and reform how the federal government helps people access health insurance”. GAO has found that in 2014, taxpayers are funding over a thousand Obamacare health plans that subsidize abortion on demand-even late-term abortion-in defiance of the Hyde Amendment Obama publicly said he would honor. Coupling that with savings from the reorganization of Medicaid would pay for his new plan, he said. The theory is that health insurance will get more expensive the older and more prone to disease and injury one is. “And critically, it’s no longer smart politics to be hush-hush about it: Any Republican president is going to have to sell the American people on a genuine vision of where to take the health care system”.

Ensure affordable and accessible health insurance for everyone. “The great way to motivate the Congress to pass the reforms that we’re talking about is to make sure they have to live under the same Obamacare rules that the rest of America’s been put under over the last few years, right?”

That could provide states with incentives to be more efficient with their spending, and it could also let some states simply spend less on those families. Non-adults would get subsidies of $900 for insurance; 18- to 34-year-olds would get $1,200, increasing to $2,100 for those 35 to 49 and $3,000 for those agest 50 to 64.

The Pioneer Press reports Walker has the most support of any of the Republican candidates in Minnesota ahead of next year’s caucus, getting the backing of several prominent politicians including Kurt Daudt (who is serving as the state chairman for Walker’s campaign).

For starters, it would do away with the federal mandate – the requirement that all consumers obtain health insurance.

“I want to perfectly clear: Americans want more than just campaign promises, they want results”.

Robert Laszewski, a health care industry consultant and commentator who has been critical of Obama’s law, called Walker’s proposal naive.

Walker wrote his plan would increase health coverage options for individuals and businesses, eliminating regulations put forth by the Obamacare plan.