House conservatives torpedo leaked Obamacare replacement plan
Last week, CNN obtained a draft Congressional Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act with a plan that would replace subsidies with smaller tax credits, allow insurance to charge senior citizens more, decimate Medicaid, and cause millions of Americans to lose their coverage altogether.
But after a series of high-profile conservative defections, a GOP leader confirmed Tuesday that version is “no longer even a viable draft.”
A trio of prominent House Republicans made it clear that even this bill was not conservative enough for them. While the bill would mean the loss of health insurance for millions of Americans, they object to provisions in the bill that would help some people remain covered.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), who chairs the House Freedom Caucus (a group of a few dozen of the most conservative Republicans in Congress), announced on Monday that he could not support that proposal because included refundable tax credits to help people pay for health insurance and some tax increases. “A new Republican president signs a new entitlement and a new tax increase as his first major piece of legislation? I don’t know how you support that — do you?” he asked, adding that many members of his caucus would be willing to vote against the leaked draft.
https://thinkprogress.org/house-conservatives-say-theyd-vote-against-leaked-obamacare-replacement-plan-24df9e535af7#.g3iuyhr8h
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Trump sez
It just lacks that poor and sick people-killing edge that they're looking for.
