Obamacare replacement bill now available

Good day all. The Republican party has finally released their plan to obliterate Obamacare and replace it with something that works.

The bill, titled in the usual grandiose way by Congress, is called the American Healthcare Act. One major difference between this bill and the original Obamacare bill is that we won’t have to pass it to see what’s in it. For other details on this story, we turn to Fox News:

House Republicans on Monday evening released the text of their long-awaited ObamaCare replacement bill, proposing to eliminate the various taxes and penalties tied to the original legislation while still preserving certain patient protections.

I have not read this bill, so I can’t speak to it’s contents. I’ll leave that up to the healthcare geeks out there.

Aiming to deliver on their signature campaign promise after several election cycles trying to reclaim control of Washington, majority Republicans unveiled what they call the American Health Care Act. The sweeping legislation would repeal ObamaCare’s taxes along with the so-called individual and employer mandates – which imposed fines for not buying and offering insurance, respectively.

There is a lot dealing with the budget busting Medicaid system.

More significantly, Republicans would overhaul the federal-state Medicaid program, changing its open-ended federal financing to a limit based on enrollment and costs in each state.

As I recall, under Obamacare, Medicaid would have eaten up the budgets of all states in very short order. States like New Hampshire, where Anger Central is located, would have probably had to put in a state income tax and sales tax to pay for the mess. The problem is, that would have been nothing more than a short term fix and the taxes would have had to continue to raise taxes with the corresponding collapse of the economy. But hey, the only math Progressives are good at is figuring out their golf scores. (And they probably cheat on that as well)

“We begin by repealing the awful taxes, the mandate penalties and the subsidies in ObamaCare,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, told Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier” in an exclusive interview.

Asked about some conservatives’ concerns that GOP leaders are merely pushing ‘ObamaCare Lite,’ Brady countered, “It is ObamaCare gone.”

As I’ve said, I have not yet, and probably won’t read the bill. I’m sure there’s a lot in it I will hate, but it is a starting point. More importantly, the American people will be able to read it and decide for themselves if this is what we’re looking for. If it isn’t? Then we call our representatives and inform them that we do not like the bill in it’s current form. We shall see what happens in the next few months. As it is, almost anything would be better then the crap we’ve been suffering under for years.

Thatisall

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