What do they think they're doing? Not a single Republican senator voted for the `Affordable Care' act when the Democrats rammed it through late Christmas Eve 2010. What are they doing?!
Posted on 03/03/2015 7:13:08 AM PST by GIdget2004
Three House Republican chairmen on Monday night outlined a healthcare plan to replace ObamaCare, if the Supreme Court guts the president's signature healthcare initiative. The court is this week hearing arguments in a challenge to key ObamaCare subsidies.
The plan from Reps. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and John Kline (R-Minn.) joins a separate proposal from Senate Republicans unveiled on Sunday night. Republicans are looking to show that they will be ready if the Court invalidates subsidies that help people buy insurance in roughly three dozen states. If the Court rules against the law, the chairmen write in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, "Then what?"
"What about the people who will lose their subsidies—and possibly their coverage?" they add. "No family should pay for this administration’s overreach. That is why House Republicans have formed a working group to propose a way out for the affected states if the court rules against the administration."
The plan would roll back ObamaCare's mandates to buy insurance while also providing tax credits to help people afford coverage.
The proposal is framed as an "off-ramp" from ObamaCare because it allows states to opt-out of mandates. Gone would be the requirement for individuals to buy insurance and for employers to provide it.
ObamaCare includes protection for people with pre-existing medical conditions buying insurance, whether they already have coverage or not.
This plan guarantees that people who already have coverage are able to renew it. It also includes some elements of ObamaCare, such as letting people stay on their parents' plans until they are 26 and prohibiting lifetime limits on benefits.
The second main element of the plan would offer people in states losing ObamaCare's subsidies some tax credits to help them buy insurance.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The GOP will lose the House Senate and White House in 2016 if the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiffs in this case.
And how exactly is this plan better than Obammycare?
The whole world is looking at this one the wrong way. All that’s needed is to eliminate abuses and reduce costs.
How about doing nothing ?
How about replacing it with freedom.
Obamacare-Lite.
Hey GOP - you might as well pass single payer.
You’re giving him his legacy and making the Democrats’ point for them that you hate Obamacare but can’t come up with a replacement for it.
Help stamp out Obama-Kare!
Replace it with Republi-Kare
Republicans, like democrats, are focused on subsidizing healthcare Insurance companies instead of restoring a market that delivers actual healthcare to people at costs fair to the buyer and the seller.
If you have affordable healthcare you don’t need a trillion dollar insurance industry and the federal government between tou and the healtcare provider.
In fact, eliminating the government and insurance companies as middle-men will ensure that healthcare becomes more affordable.
They’re going to lose it all either way.
Obama is not a hypocrite.
His opponents are because they hate him but love his law.
Gee, what else is new?
The GOP owes an apology to every Democrat it defeated if it ends up passing this kind of crap.
What do they think they're doing? Not a single Republican senator voted for the `Affordable Care' act when the Democrats rammed it through late Christmas Eve 2010. What are they doing?!
I want them to ban regular insurance and only have catastrophic with HSAs with a mandate of those getting Earned Income Credit put it in their HSA. But I don’t want this cost sharing scheme and all the insurance mandates. Basically I want Obamacare repealed and the EIC turned into a HSA Funding mechanism for the poor.
We keep throwing more money at the poor, and they keep growing.
You know, you don’t need to give the Democrats rope when Republicans are devising the noose to hang their own necks in with.
That’s called snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Explain to me again why conservatives moved heaven and earth to vote the publicrats back into power in 2014.
Again, I don't trust anyone, but this is better than the senate plan and gets rid of mandate...
Then we have to deal with folks who do want insurance. Most of them are likely on welfare or Medicaid or whatever...already and get free "poverty" care. That sign at the hospital emergency room tells me so...."No one will be turned away".
The poor aren’t the problem.
I’m a frugal person. Washington isn’t.
If we spent our money the way Washington does, we would starve.
Washington grows.
If the Supreme Court throws out the individual mandate, why do you need to have government run health care?
Let individuals and families decide what’s best for them.
So you eliminate the mandate on both sides. The mandate to have insurance, and the mandate for insurance companies to insure people?
People on Medicaid can’t afford Obamacare.
Do you think folks like me wouldn’t buy health insurance if it was actually affordable?
And remember, the deductibles kick in before you’re actually covered.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.