Obamacare vs. the Republican plan – for those thinking of skipping health insurance

After House Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled the American Health Care Act this week, members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus made their own bet: that Trump isn’t very committed to passing Ryan’s vision for health care reform, and can be swayed to their way of thinking.

But with the Republican replacement already passed through two committees this week -Ways and Means and the Energy and Commerce Committees – resistance to the bill is softening.

The plan by the Republicans in Congress to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is advancing and will end up very well, President Donald Trump said in a statement on Thursday.

Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, the Heritage Foundation, the Club for Growth, tea party groups and the Koch network, even the Trump-friendly Breitbart News – all have lined against the president’s replacement plan for Obamacare.

The GOP plan, as predicted, kills most of the law’s taxes and fees and would not enforce the so-called employer mandate, which requires certain employers to provide a set level of health coverage to workers or pay a penalty.

The American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association and other hospital groups have come out against the bill.

Obamacare also enabled 20 million previously uninsured people to obtain coverage. Rob Portman, have concerns about how the bill treats Medicaid expansion states. “Members are going to have to pick a side: (House Democratic leader) Nancy Pelosi or President Trump”.

“He let us know they’re still open to negotiations”.

On Friday, two key conservative leaders in the House said they were willing to accept controversial measures in the bill, including maintaining the Medicaid expansion and giving tax credits to lower-income insurance buyers – as long as Republican leadership and the White House would accept some changes in the law.

Tom Price doesn’t really care if you have health care, which is not really what you want in a health and human services secretary. But he told Fox News: “The message might not have been absolutely piercing to folks”.

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A Republican plan to eliminate and replace major portions of former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement, the Affordable Care Act, has been savaged since its release earlier this week on Capitol Hill, presenting an early test of Republican governance.

Representative Steve King said on CNN that his fellow Republicans must act now.

“When the administration has spoken to our members in private meetings, the discussions have been more about finding ways to move forward together and not about take it or leave it”, said Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican from MI, who also told reporters he ordered “The Art of the Deal” during the meeting. “They should listen to the voices coming from their own party, who say this bill will hurt their states and hurt the country”, Schumer added. Around $600 billion in 10-year tax boosts that Obama’s statute imposed on wealthy Americans and others to finance his overhaul would be repealed. “This is decision-making without the facts”, she told reporters on Wednesday.

So if it’s true that they’re going to mark up this bill Wednesday, what I suspect they’re going to do is simply put out a notice of the markup without a hearing, without a subcommittee markup or a full committee markup either maybe tonight, which would mean you’d have maybe 24 hours to look at this thing before you had the vote. “We are talking to many groups and it will end in a handsome picture!” “Americans deserve full transparency, which includes the full budget score”, he said. Obamacare did not do enough to deal with underlying costs.

The Freedom Caucus’ belief that the bill is “dead on arrival” differs with House Speaker Paul Ryan’s repeated assurances that it will reach the necessary 218-vote threshold to pass the House.