Governor Scott Walker unveils plan for replacing Obama health care law

The Walker plan repeals Obamacare and replaces it with a different, tax-credit based system. At multiple events in New Hampshire on Wednesday he reminded crowds of his fights with Wisconsin’s unions and his survival of a 2012 recall election.

Walker, speaking at Cass Screw Machine Products in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, said he thinks that, if elected, he could get this done quickly.

“Republicans have been in charge of both houses of Congress since January and there still isn’t a bill on the president’s desk to repeal Obamacare”, Walker said.

Dean Clancy, a former vice president for public policy at the tea party group FreedomWorks, wasn’t impressed by either plan. They would also break the state regulatory monopoly on insurance licensing, so that New Jerseyans can buy plans that sell in Iowa for a fraction of the prices they must now pay.

He already has promised to scrap the Iran nuclear deal on his first day in office. Jindal said the plan creates another entitlement program.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized Gov. Walker’s plan via a Twitter message.

While many conservatives praised the plan, not everybody is on board with it. Skelley also said the campaign wanted to show substance, and the plan accomplishes that.

Is this a smart move? Walker’s plan is light on details and numbers.

In the opinion of health-care expert Avik Roy, an adviser to 2016 rival Gov. Rick Perry, Walker’s proposal would cost about $1.1 trillion over 10 years. His aides say the plan will reduce premiums, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Surely we can do better than simply producing our own versions of Obamacare lite”.

Today, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio have published plans – really, not so much plans as skeletal descriptions of planlike concepts – to replace Obamacare. He gets to go beyond any repeal rhetoric which has previously dominated any discussion. If Obamacare disappears, insurers will need another way to offset the cost of older, less healthy individuals against younger, healthier ones. For example, there would be no requirement for individuals to carry health insurance or face fines, as there is now. The governor does say that those who want to benefit from guarantees of affordable care must maintain continuing coverage, however. Walker’s plan would tie credits to age. Kaiser Family Foundation executive Larry Levitt told The Wall Street Journal that providing tax credits based on age rather than income shifts more subsidy dollars to higher-income consumers and away from the poor. Under his proposal, Americans could purchase insurance across state lines.

The company’s president, Steve Wise, says he hasn’t decided yet who to support in the presidential race but he’s interested in hearing from anyone who wants to repeal or fix Affordable Care Act (ACA).

“There’s a lot in here that borrows from the ACA but renames it something else”, Friedsam said. “To offset these improvements, we would simplify and reform how the federal government helps people access health insurance”.

There are a number of things wrong with Walker’s plan. “And we’ve got to repeal every part of it”, Walker said. Even though people with certain income levels qualify for government subsidies when they buy health insurance on government-run exchanges, more than a quarter are not taking advantage of the discount.