House Republicans Unveil Their Bill to Repeal and Replace Obamacare

If the House GOP leadership plan passes, millions of poor and working-poor American citizens will suffer.

Now, almost 33% of all US counties have only one insurer offering plans on their state’s exchange and 34% fewer doctors and other health care providers accept ObamaCare insurance compared to private insurance.

You would have had to have been in a coma for the last six years if you didn’t know that many, many Americans hate the Affordable Care Act, especially when it goes by the name “Obamacare”. Therefore, insurance companies at this time can not deny coverage or charge more money to cover kids sick with anything from terminal cancer to asthma. It is not something that needs to be changed every time there is a political party change. But House GOP leaders are also pushing to cap the tax exclusion for employer-provided health insurance – the biggest loophole in the federal tax code. For one, he wants the program to be limited to disabled people, pregnant women or other groups of people who are unable to work.

The Democratic architects of Obamacare knew full well that when they offered Americans an entitlement to which they were not entitled in 2010, it would be tremendously hard to remove it. Why else would they be hiding their plans from the American public? “The block grant concept is that the federal government just identifies a certain amount of money and then sends that money to the state, and the federal government washing their hands and says their role and responsibility is over”. Of course it will.

Remember that the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush tax cuts have already benefited our most affluent, as well as added billions to our national debt. Obama saw health care as a basic right that should be available to everyone. So if the existing Obamacare taxes on individuals, businesses and the health care industry are stricken from the books, as conservatives demand, the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers will have to replace those lost revenues.

But some of it was directed at Collins, the 9th District’s Republican lawmaker.

I agree with Horowitz that “repeal and replace” is based on wrong assumptions, but I don’t share his confidence in the private insurance marketplace.

An irony is that while Republicans want to limit government, they use that same government to control people’s lives.

Would the president sign such a law that would so negatively affect our country’s most vulnerable?

In both cases Graves touted the 21st Century Cures Act, a bill enacted in December that includes funding for medical research and streamlines the approval process for new drugs and medical devices.

We can’t wait to find out.

Tax credits aren’t free, and the president appears to be siding with the people who complain that health insurance is too expensive to buy under the ACA. “I think the refundable tax credit in its present form represents a new entitlement”.