The House has introduced the bill to #RepealAndReplace #Obamacare Here is@speakerryan statement

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BREAKING NEWS → We just introduced our bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. The American Health Care Act is a plan to drive down costs, encourage competition, and give every American access to quality, affordable health insurance. It protects young adults, patients with pre-existing conditions, and provides a stable transition so that no one has the rug pulled out from under them.
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The House has introduced the bill to #RepealAndReplace #Obamacare Here is@speakerryan statement

[h=2]Statement on Introduction of the American Health Care Act[/h]"The American Health Care Act is a plan to drive down costs, encourage competition, and give every American access to quality, affordable health insuranc...
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BREAKING NEWS: Republicans publish their plan to repeal and replace Obamacare - setting up epic clash with Democrats

• Individual mandate and employer mandate would be effectively killed
• Obamacare's Medicaid expansion also to be phased out
• New funds for high-risk pools
• Tax credits for individuals of $2,000 to $4,000 to buy insurance
• Four GOP senators are digging in against phaseout of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion
• The bill withholds funding from groups that provide abortions
• Repeal of limit on deduction on executive pay of over $500,000

Read more:

• Record number of Obamacare sign-ups on HealthCare.gov for 2017 health insurance coverage
• House Republicans release long-awaited ObamaCare replacement bill | Fox News

 

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Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled legislation on Monday to repeal the central tenets of the Obamacare healthcare law, including its expansion of the Medicaid program for the poor and a cap on federal funding for Medicaid going forward.
Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump have repeatedly promised to repeal and replace former Democratic President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement known as the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
House Republicans didn't release a score for how much the repeal would cost – or how many Americans would lose health care coverage under the changes.

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Publishing: Republicans under the leadership of Speaker Paul Ryan have unveiled their plan to repeal and replace Obamacare

The 66-page document is the prelude to an all-out battle over Obamacare with the Democrats.
House Republicans are calling their bill The American Health Care Act.
Trump made repeal and replace of his predecessor's signature plan a central point of his campaign, branding it a disaster.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said: 'Obamacare has proven to be a disaster with fewer options, inferior care, and skyrocketing costs that are crushing small business and families across America.
'Today marks an important step toward restoring healthcare choices and affordability back to the American people. President Trump looks forward to working with both Chambers of Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare.'
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, told Fox News’ 'Special Report with Bret Baier': 'We begin by repealing the awful taxes, the mandate penalties and the subsidies in ObamaCare.'
When asked about concerns that GOP leaders are just pushing 'ObamaCare Lite', he added: 'It is ObamaCare gone.'

 

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Central to the plan are new tax credits ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 that Americans could claim to pay for health insurance.
The repeal would effectively abolish Obamacare's individual mandate and a mandate that employers of certain businesses offer health care coverage for their employees.
The new penalties for individuals who don't get health coverage would drop to zero, as would the penalty on employees who don't offer it. The reason for affecting the change that way is that pushing legislative changes repealing Obamacare would have to clear a 60-vote threshold in the Senate. Republicans instead are opting to jam through tax and spending changes through a bill that can pass on a simple majority under budget rules.
The bill unveiled by the House Ways and Means committee also would slash away at provisions of the original Obamacare bill that paid for the program, which relied on a combination of fees, individual tax payments, and savings from Medicare to fund a system that set up new state and federal health exchanges where people could buy insurance.

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The Republicans' release of bill text Monday marks the start of the next front in a major battle over the future of Obamacare

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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul blasted House Republicans for failing to release the text of their bill last week

 

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For example, the bill eliminates a tax on medical devices, a revenue source opposed by the industry.


It also phases out Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid, the health system for the poor – a portion of the bill responsible for getting millions of people onto insurance rolls.
The bill is expected to get a vote at Ways and Means and the House Energy and Commerce Committee this week and speed to the House floor, where conservative Republicans have a strong majority and have vowed for years to repeal Obamacare.



But it faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where several senators have demanded to maintain the Medicaid expansion and insisted on putting a functioning alternative to Obamacare in place.


The expansion would get frozen in 2020 and then phase out over time, Politico reported.

Meanwhile, Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky have blasted House alternative legislation that they say commits the government to new entitlements.
Senators digging in over medicaid are Rob Portman of Ohio, Shelly Moore Capito of West Virginia, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Cory Gardner of Colorado.
They wrote Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Monday. 'We are concerned that any poorly implemented or poorly timed change in the current funding structure in Medicaid could result in a reduction in access to life-saving health care services,' they wrote.


The tax credits vary by age. People in their 30s might get tax credits of $2,500, while people in their 30s would get about $3,000 and people in their 50s would get about $3,500, with the amount capping out at $4,000.

Said House Speaker Paul Ryan in a statement: 'Obamacare is rapidly collapsing. Skyrocketing premiums, soaring deductibles, and dwindling choices are not what the people were promised seven years ago. It's time to turn a page and rescue our health care system from this disastrous law.'

Touting the GOP plan, he said: 'The American Health Care Act is a plan to drive down costs, encourage competition, and give every American access to quality, affordable health insurance. It protects young adults, patients with pre-existing conditions, and provides a stable transition so that no one has the rug pulled out from under them.'

'After years of Obamacare's broken promises, House Republicans today took an important step,' said House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden of Oregon.
'Simply put, we have a Better Way to deliver solutions that put patients -- not bureaucrats -- first, and we are moving forward united in our efforts to rescue the American people from the mess Obamacare has created.'

The bill withholds funding from groups like Planned Parenthood that provide abortions using funds other than federal funds.

Experts predicted a full repeal of Obamacare without an adequate replacement would result in 20 million people losing their health coverage, CNBC reported.
Another provision would repeal a provision that limited the tax deduction for executive pay of more than $500,000. The limit would go away in 2018.
Two Obamacare reforms would be preserved: provisions that prohibiting health insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, and a provision that lets children stay on their parent's plans until age 26.

Republican leaders tried to address growing conservative opposition to the plan, imposing income limitations on the tax credits. Some House and Senate conservatives have been deriding the bill as 'Obamacare light.'

 

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WASHINGTON—House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement on introduction of the American Health Care Act:


“Obamacare is rapidly collapsing. Skyrocketing premiums, soaring deductibles, and dwindling choices are not what the people were promised seven years ago. It’s time to turn a page and rescue our health care system from this disastrous law. The American Health Care Act is a plan to drive down costs, encourage competition, and give every American access to quality, affordable health insurance. It protects young adults, patients with pre-existing conditions, and provides a stable transition so that no one has the rug pulled out from under them.


“Working together, this unified Republican government will deliver relief and peace of mind to the millions of Americans suffering under Obamacare. This will proceed through a transparent process of regular order in full view of the public. I want to thank all of our members who have contributed their ideas, especially Chairman Walden and Chairman Brady, as well as Secretary Price and the Trump administration, for their commitment to keep this promise and get this right.”

 

[JDeuce]

From what ive read so far, this looks like a half ass repeal. Will be very disappointed if DJT doesn't tell Paul Ryan to shove it back up his ass. Let's hope we repeal it to find out what was in it...

 

[SheriffJoe]

From what ive read so far, this looks like a half ass repeal. Will be very disappointed if DJT doesn't tell Paul Ryan to shove it back up his ass. Let's hope we repeal it to find out what was in it...

Yep, definitely not repeal. No matter how RINOs spin it, it's still govt-run healthcare.

What we have here is a slightly more solvent version of Obamacare: RYANOCARE.

Right now Democrats broke and own healthcare. Lock, stock and barrel.

This turd puts GOP fingerprints all over the Obamacare disaster and the public will hold them responsible.

They just don't get it.

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[JohnnyMac]

Buried in the GOP bill to "replace" the Affordable Care Act is a provision ending the $500,000 limit on deducting executive compensation from health insurer’s taxes.

As a result, health insurance companies would get a $1 billion or more windfall over the next decade — and pay their CEOs even more money than now.

For example, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini earns more than $17 million annually, of which $500,000 is deducted from Aetna’s corporate income as a business expense. Ending the cap would allow Aetna to deduct the entire $17 million, as well as the pay of all other Aetna executives earning more than $500,000 a year.

Remember, this is only one small provision in the Republican bill. Add them up, and we’re talking big money – transferred from the poor and sick to the rich and wealthy, from taxpayers to health insurers.

--From Robert Reich.

 

[Willie99]

good point, those healthcare stocks are taking a beating since Obama limited their earnings

face)(*^%

 

[NFLTrends]

This bill is a shit show and a dumpster fire!

Scrap it and start again...

 

[Greenbacks]

Repeal and Replace

Do it Thankyou)(&

 

[Willie99]

This bill is a shit show and a dumpster fire!

Scrap it and start again...

I don't know enough about this bill to have a strong opinion, and I'm sure it's eventually going to be influenced by both the Senate and by Trump

but I'm curious, why do you hate the House bill so much?

 

[NFLTrends]

I don't know enough about this bill to have a strong opinion, and I'm sure it's eventually going to be influenced by both the Senate and by Trump

but I'm curious, why do you hate the House bill so much?

Doesnt do anything, like getting rid of state lines, lowering costs, cap limits on premiums and deductables for starters.

but does stop the fines and mandatory coverage which is good

 

[Willie99]

It's just a start, there will be different phases, and even what's only a "start" will be a work in progress

I've been saying all along repeal and replace will take time, there is no other path, you don't want to hurt people the way democrats hurt people when they rolled out Obamacare (before even reading it for heaven's sake)

 

[Willie99]

more importantly, they don't have the 60 votes in the Senate to repeal and replace with one bill

so they have no choice but to do it incrementally, taking steps that only require 50 votes

 

[JDeuce]

Yep, definitely not repeal. No matter how RINOs spin it, it's still govt-run healthcare.

What we have here is a slightly more solvent version of Obamacare: RYANOCARE.

Right now Democrats broke and own healthcare. Lock, stock and barrel.

This turd puts GOP fingerprints all over the Obamacare disaster and the public will hold them responsible.

They just don't get it.

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Yep. You don't cure one form of cancer by replacing it with different cancerous cells.

Any new extensive government regulations like this are next to impossible to get rid of once passed. Unfortunately, dimocraps knew this when this monstrosity was created. What really pisses me off though is the R's have full control of Congress, yet they're still standing around with their dicks in their hands saying "what do you want us to do?" I will consider DJT's presidency a failure if he doesn't follow through on his promise of a full repeal.

 

[BZ]

I will consider DJT's presidency a failure if he doesn't follow through on his promise of a full repeal.

Failure it will be then (among the many other things) there will be no full repeal.

 

[SheriffJoe]

more importantly, they don't have the 60 votes in the Senate to repeal and replace with one bill

so they have no choice but to do it incrementally, taking steps that only require 50 votes

There's something very disingenuous about this whole thing...

The House already fully repealed Obamacare, so why not send the exact same bill to Trump's desk? Oh, that's right...unlike Hussein, Trump may actually sign it! Ryan is a such a sleazeball! ##)

Obamacare can be killed the same way it was created - without 60 votes.

If what you're saying is true and they don't even have 50 votes, then keep silently butchering this unconstitutional disaster with executive orders behind the scenes and make those who supported this abject stupidity masking as 'compassion' feel the pain.

Healthcare needs to be run by the free market economy, not the government. Why even bother voting if the GOP can't grasp this simple concept?