Obamacare repeal bill passed in two House committees after prolonged debate

Spicer concluded by saying that the government’s top priority is to assure the best deal for the American people, even when it seems that most health care related group do not think that this, in fact, is the best deal. Meanwhile, a group of health researchers calculated that the bill would increase costs for enrollees on the individual insurance market by, on average, more than $1,500 per year when it would take effect, and by more than $2,400 per year by 2020.

Mulvaney continued, arguing that “it will be possible for more people to get better care at the doctor under this plan than it was under Obamacare”.

“We are now reviewing the draft language and continuing to work with our congressional delegation as well as the National Association of Medicaid Directors and the Republican Governors Association to evaluate the impact of the proposed changes and influence the conversation to ensure Tennessee is in as strong of a position as possible and is able to meet the needs of our population”, said Sarah Tanksley, a spokeswoman for TennCare.

“I’ll call it “Trumpcare” if you want to, but I didn’t hear President Trump say to any of us, “Hey, I want my name on that”. We all know that.

They are also concerned that the new bill does not immediately roll back the Obama expansion of Medicaid eligibility to most poorer adults in more than 30 states. However, Republican House leaders are giving little indication that they’d consider modifying the bill in that way.

The plan was crafted by Republican leaders and endorsed by Trump, who campaigned heavily previous year on a pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare. “It means that it’s probably not going to pass in the form that we’re talking about today”. But the “American Healthcare Act” was met with nearly immediate scorn, from liberal activists, from conservative think tanks, from Congressional Republicans-even from the President. In a statement released Tuesday, Walker said the GOP health care bill was “an important first step” but called for more work to be done. And that job can’t be done if millions of people go uninsured, with no oversight of their health or management of their care.

This body of health agencies were the ones that helped pass the Affordable Care Act back in 2010.

Paul and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, have pushed their own alternative health care replacement bills that would go much further in undoing Obamacare than what House leaders have proposed. “But this could have a perverse incentive”. But that’s absurd. To enact an enormous tax cut under budget reconciliation rules, you need offsetting long-term spending cuts. Among the issues they have with the bill is the tax credits the new plan provides, which could actually result in a rebate from the IRS to cover premiums, and the delay in doing away with the original law’s Medicaid expansion program.

“If you’re older and sicker, you’re probably going to do less well under the Republican plan as it’s now designed”, Zwillich says. “If you’re younger and healthier, you’ll probably do a lot better under the tax credit system as it’s now designed”.

In either case, this represents a major shift in the way the Medicaid is funded by the federal government to the states-exactly the kind of fundamental change that many governors were asking for behind closed doors.

This story originally aired on The Takeaway.