The House GOP Just Finally Revealed Their Secret Bill To Repeal Obamacare
Despite increasingly loud calls to slow down the legislative push on health care, House Republican leaders are bullish that their legislation to partially dismantle the 2010 health care law and replace it with a plan that enjoys little stakeholder support is just right. Additionally, maintaining deep provider reductions while dramatically reducing coverage will reduce our ability to provide essential care to those newly uninsured and those without adequate insurance. More than 1 million people bought coverage through a new health insurance marketplace, Covered California, while almost 4 million more joined Medicaid, a health plan for the poor jointly funded by the state and federal governments and known in California as Medi-Cal.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady told Fox News Channel late on Tuesday that he would “listen to good ideas to improve it” but said the plan achieves the party’s goals.
The ability to get coverage even with a pre-existing condition and the requirement that young people carry insurance.
We understand that Republicans don’t like entitlements and don’t like the taxes needed to fund them, but the GOP plan will run into plenty of opposition, as well. It also continues to allow parents to keep their children on their plan until age 26.
A potentially lengthy United States legislative fight over replacement of the Obamacare health law gets underway on Wednesday as two House of Representatives committees begin negotiating over changes to a Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump. This paves the way for huge increases in what poor and lower middle-class families will pay before they get their first dollar of insurance coverage, and what they will pay every time they need a health-care service. Action on Obamacare was an “urgent necessity” he said.
Both proposed plans look to repeal and replace Obamacare with what Republicans are saying offers lower costs and more choices for Americans. “What will happen, the insurance companies will have higher co-pays, higher deductibles”.
Brown said he wants to know more before he weighs in. Tweet this question to the president. While there are many applauding this new bill as a way to replace the Affordable Care Act, some healthcare advocates say it’s still unclear how this could impact Texas. Others object to the fact that it doesn’t immediately rollback the expansion of Medicaid benefit, and because it would issue tax credits to people to help reduce the cost of their individual health plans. People will no longer be fined on their tax returns if they lack insurance under the plan.
CNN reports that the bill was unveiled today sans Congressional Budget Office score.