Read the bill: GOP proposal for replacing Obamacare

The battle over the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is now joined in earnest.

Greg Walden chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee and helped author the bill.

If you would like to read an unreserved attack on what the House Republicans are up to by the liberal lobby group ThinkProgress, here it is.

Ultimately, it’s unclear if the new American Health Care Act truly represents a solid blueprint alternative to the ACA or, more likely, a work in progress. GOP leaders are also feeling pressure from the moderate wing, and particularly on how to handle the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, which will be allowed to continue unchanged through 2020 under the latest bill. Now if a health plan covers abortions it must collect a separate premium to pay for such procedures.

Democrats across the board have promised to fight any changes to the law that would scale back health care coverage. They do, saying it “destabilized the private insurance market and created an unsustainable path for both the states and the federal government”. It also reverses taxes on high-income Americans used to offset the healthcare costs to poorer Americans and gives wealthy Americans subsidies to purchase insurance.

“If we vote tomorrow on the repeal, the actual effective date will be two or three years down the road”.

Many credit that requirement, along with the Affordable Care Act’s other provisions, with helping more people in IL gain health insurance.

There is no discrimination for pre-existing conditions, as before, but the new plan can charge you up to 30 percent on one’s premium for any lapse in coverage. The credit amounts depend on a person’s age, with individuals over the age of 60 receiving $4,000 a year, the maximum amount.

But those tax credits are raising concern from the right.

REP. DAVE BRAT, R-Va.: Where is it coming from? But for newly enrolled beneficiaries, the federal government would provide a lower level of financing. And it’s a new entitlement program. They also are far more likely than men to be caregivers, including for older adults, such as parents or spouses. But his replacement plan has proven controversial with some Republicans, who have argued that the tax credits are just a reworked version of Obamacare’s subsidies.

They are Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas.

Paul, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and members of the House Freedom Caucus scheduled a press conference Tuesday to attack the plan.

The US president has endorsed the legislation to replace signature health care legislation brought in by his predecessor. “We’re working hand-in-glove with President Trump, Vice President Pence, [Health and Human Services] Secretary [Tom] Price – this is all-hands-on-deck”.

House Speaker Ryan has said he wants passage through his chamber in early April.

Consideration of the measure is set to begin Wednesday in two House committees.