Sen. Cotton Tells House GOP to ‘Start Over’ on ObamaCare Replacement Plan

The Republicans’ newly released health care plan is taking fire from Republican and Democratic legislators, and several health care industry groups, but that didn’t stop it from speeding through two major Republican-dominated House committees Thursday, boosted by a cheerful tweet from President Donald Trump.

However, White House spokesman Sean Spicer expressed indifference to the growing number of people, groups, and organizations that have voiced their opposition, saying that the Trump administration “would love to have every group on board”, but apparently finds support to be relatively insignificant.

(Ryan) “This has been the crown jewel of conservative health care reform to equalize the tax treatment of health care, so that we can have a vibrant individual market”. That’s one reason it has drawn intense fire from doctors, hospitals, healthcare economists and analysts.

Republicans clearly honor age and wealth, as evidenced by their new proposal.

It’s too soon to tell how much the plan will cost or if people now covered will retain their coverage, and at what cost. And they accused Republicans of hiding bad news by moving ahead without official estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on the bill’s cost to taxpayers and anticipated coverage.

“The bill sabotages the marketplaces where close to 10 million Americans today get coverage and starts a death spiral from which we will never recover”, said Ways and Means’ top Democrat, Richard Neal of MA. He admits this bill does not satisfy conservatives.

“It still looks like Obamacare-lite to me”, said Senator Rand Paul. “I think we’re punting the ball, is what we’re doing”. That score would indicate the bill’s expected effect on the federal budget, as well as how many Americans would be expected to lose, or gain, health insurance coverage if it were to become law. “It’s never true that you have to take whatever bill is given to you”, he said. I don’t think it helps any of them because these are not solutions.

After that, the committee discussed the procedure for offering amendments to the bill – Walden said he had received no amendments, while Pallone said that the committee Democrats had about 100 amendments they wanted to offer and that they were available. “So people could say they have coverage but they couldn’t actually get the medical care they needed when they get sick”.

“The country had their say”. “The American people spoke”. 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. Because the proposed plan leaves many of Obamacare’s burdensome insurance regulations in place.

Tax Credits: Tea party-minded lawmakers are opposed to a central component of the GOP plan that gives age-based tax credits in advance to help people purchase health insurance. A Republican Study Committee analysis labeled it “welfare”.

Insurance plans will no longer have to cover most care; catastrophic policies will be allowed again.

“We’re not going to let some unelected bureaucrats in Washington stop us from fulfilling our promise to the American people”, Scalise said Wednesday in rejecting complaints about the CBO’s delay.