Senator Mike Lee Opposes Speaker Ryan’s Obamacare-Lite Bill

After weeks of infighting, House Republicans on Monday unveiled a bill that would repeal and replace Obamacare, in the hope that setting events in motion will impel members of Congress to set aside their reservations and pass it.

Not that its death is assured, mind you. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., plans to send the bill to the House floor for a vote and then sent to the Senate by the beginning of April. But the reaction to this bill shows that unity on this issue will be awfully hard to come by.

Instead, it’s using a process called ‘reconciliation.’ Republicans can’t repeal the ACA, but they can pick it apart by undoing key provisions. He also worked in the Obama Administration as the special assistant to the president for healthcare and economic policy on the National Economic Council, helping to shape what became the ACA.

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But on the other hand, it turns out that the public likes most of what the ACA does. Almost half of those gained insurance under an expansion of Medicaid, which would end in 2020 under the Republicans’ new plan, then face funding caps. During a meeting with 20 House GOP whips on Tuesday, President Trump said he would do everything he can to get the Republican health care bill passed, and did not acknowledge that the reaction so far has been nearly uniformly negative. Less expected were the attacks from the right. Under current law, people earning up to about $48,000 ($98,000 for a family of four) buying health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges receive tax subsidies based on their income, age and geographic region.

House just introduced the bill to #RepealAndReplace #Obamacare. And several other senators object to the bill’s defunding of Planned Parenthood. Dismissing the concern that 10 million to 20 million will lose coverage is politically daft.

Not even 24 hours after the release of the bill, Republicans have already started to revolt. And with the election of President Donald Trump, they finally had a realistic political chance of getting that done given the GOP control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. “Do whatever you can in the meantime to make sure your employees feel confident about where they are at”. And if it fails, Republican voters will be disappointed and disgusted with their leaders, and thus more likely to stay home.

As Vox reports, it is still unclear how many people it will cover with medical insurance or how much it will cost the nation.

Reps. Kevin Brady of Texas and Greg Walden of OR, chairmen of the committees where the bill will be marked up on Wednesday, repeatedly invoked Trump’s support for the bill during a press conference on Monday, signaling that a no vote will be a vote against the president’s wishes.