GOP Plan Scraps Mandate, Rolls Back Medicaid And Replaces Subsidies With Tax Credits
House Republicans release their long-awaited plan, named the American Health Care Act, which protects some of the Affordable Care Act's more popular provisions.
Los Angeles Times:
Republicans Unveil Plan To Repeal And Replace Obamacare Amid Conflicting Pressures
House Republicans released a long-awaited Obamacare replacement Monday that would dismantle the law’s extensive system for expanding health insurance coverage to millions of Americans. In all, the plan would probably take away health coverage from several million Americans and raise costs for many more, especially low-income people and the middle-aged. But it would immediately end the requirement that all Americans have insurance, which has been highly unpopular, especially with Republicans, reduce federal authority over the healthcare system and provide a huge tax cut to upper-income families. (Levey and Mascaro, 3/6)
San Francisco Chronicle:
GOP Plan To Replace Health Care Plan Is Released
The plan would decrease federal funding to Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid, and take away a subsidy from the state’s health insurance marketplace, known as Covered California. The proposed legislation would preserve two popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare: Insurance companies could not deny coverage to patients based on pre-existing conditions, and children could stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26. (Ho, 3/6)
KPCC:
House GOP Releases Bill That Would Replace Obamacare Taxes And Penalties, Keep Some Subsidies
The bill would offer tax credits, refundable in advance, to people with incomes below $75,000. But those credits will be lower in many cases than the subsidies now offered in the ACA. (Kodjak and Neel, 3/6)
The Wall Street Journal:
Top Earners Would Pay Less Tax Under GOP Health-Care Proposal
Households at the top of the U.S. income ladder would see taxes on their wages and investments drop under the House Republicans’ new health-care proposal. As expected, the bill repeals a 3.8% tax on investment income and a 0.9% tax on wages. Both levies affect only the highest-earning households, those individuals making at least $200,000 and married couples making more than $250,000. (Rubin, 3/7)
Politico:
Conservatives Pan House Obamacare Repeal Bill
A handful of House conservatives on Monday evening criticized GOP leaderships’ newly released Obamacare replacement bill, foreshadowing trouble for the repeal effort even after leaders tried to assuage the far-right. Some House Freedom Caucus members dismissed the bill as creating a new “entitlement program” by offering health care tax credits to low-income Americans. (Bade, 3/6)
The Hill:
Schumer Promises Dems Will Try To Defeat 'Trumpcare'
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday slammed the GOP’s replacement plans for Obamacare, saying Democrats will work to defeat the bills. “This bill is a giveaway to the wealthy and insurance companies at the expense of American families, and Senate Democrats will work hard to see that it is defeated,” Schumer said in a statement. Republicans rolled out two measures on Monday to repeal and replace the healthcare legislation, a signature campaign promise of President Trump. (Shelbourne, 3/6)
Bloomberg:
GOP Needs Trump's Salesmanship To Advance New Obamacare Plan
Two House committees released long-awaited draft measures that House Speaker Paul Ryan and GOP leaders negotiated with the White House, and made expedited plans to take up the measures Wednesday. The proposal would scrap the underpinnings of Obamacare, including its mandate to buy insurance and many of its taxes, and establish a new refundable, age-based tax credit to help people buy insurance. Leaders aim to get a final measure to Trump’s desk by mid-April, which leaves little room for error. (House, 3/6)
Los Angeles Times:
Read The Bill: GOP Proposal For Replacing Obamacare
This is House Republicans’ plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. They released the proposal Monday. (3/6)