Walker, Rubio Share Their Plans To Replace Obamacare

Republican presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker…

“It’s all about freedom”, Walker said Tuesday, speaking at Cass Screw Machine Products.

Scott Walker rolled out his 1st huge analysis proposal Tues.in Minnesota as he unveiled his plan to repeal & exchange ObamaCare.

Clinton took to Twitter to criticize Walker’s health care plan. Walker’s plan relies on tax credits and breaking up Medicaid. In its place, he’d erect a system where taxpayers get an age-based tax-credit subsidy to help them buy private health plans. Walker’s plan would require insurers to accept people with pre-existing conditions only if they have maintained continuous coverage.

“My favorite thing about what he proposed”, says Phil Kerpen of American Commitment, “was the very first thing he said, that he would end the rule that exempted congress from ObamaCare”. “I get it”. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal released his plan last year and Rubio outlined his approach in an opinion piece published Monday.

Another Republican presidential candidate, Florida Sen. Making health care more efficient, effective and accountable by empowering the states, 4. “At the same time, Walker has denied access to healthcare through Medicaid programs to thousands of lower income Wisconsinites”, Erpenbach said. For those who have not kept continuous coverage, states would be allowed to establish high-risk pools, with federal funding.

Added Walker in his Minnesota speech unveiling his plan: “Let me be perfectly clear”.

“When did conservatism die? When did we accept the idea of dependence on government?” “Governor Walker is confused here”, Jindal said. In his stump speech he has some clever lines about how the Fourth of July is about independence, not dependence. I like those lines.

The health care law could represent tricky political ground for both sides.

Inside the world of Republican politics, few insults are more aggressive than accusing a fellow tribesman of supporting anything similar to Obamacare, which despite its origins in conservative policy circles is now widely seen on the right as the pinnacle of what’s wrong with Washington.

Walker’s plan – titled “The Day One Patient Freedom Plan” – is a patchwork of recycled health care proposals that various Republicans have put forth over the years, none of which the party has been able to coalesce around in Congress.

Topher Spiro, vice president for health policy at the Center for American Progress, a think tank often aligned with the White House, said Walker’s plan would be a step backward.

The centerpiece to his entire ObamaCare replacement proposal is allowing states more control over health care, which includes less intrusion in health care decisions, such as allowing children to stay under their parent’s health care until they are 26 years old.

On ensuring affordable and accessibly health care for all, Walker says he would lower insurance premiums by as much as 25 percent by getting “rid of ObamaCare’s red tape that is driving up the costs of these plans” and encouraging more competition between insurance companies and providers.