The GOP's Laughable Alternative to Obamacare Is a Sop to Big Business and Screws Workers

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http://www.alternet.org/gops-laughable-alternative-obamacare-sop-big-business-and-screws-workers


Cathey Park shows her bandaged hand written "I love Obamacare" as she waits to hear Barack Obama speak on healtcare at the Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 30, 2013

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The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Commiteee on Taxation (JCT) looked at the impact of H.R. 2575. Its analysis more than suggests that the Save American Workers bill was badly mislabeled:

“In most years over the 2015-2024 persiod, CBO and JCT estimate that the legislation would:

• Reduce the number of people receiving employment-based coverage – by about 1 million people;

• Increase the number of people obtainng coverage [through state-run] Medicaid, the Childen’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or health insurance exchanges – by between 500,000 and 1 million people; and

• Increase the number of uninsured – by less than 500,000 people.”

This is a political horror story involing Obamacare, but not the one that Republicans like Americans For Prosperity have been blaring around the country fanning fears about people losing health care and blaming Democrats—even as Washington Post fact checkers , New York Times columnists and others have said that those claims are big lies.

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1. It would be good if it was paid for. We should move on and get rid of employer based insurance

and go to a portable health insurance and to a point, this proposal does that.

The main issue is that it is obviously not paid for, which means that it would gut ACA even more than it is. Healthcare subsidies should be financed by income taxes, and the GOP will never go for it.