Pure nonsense. Read HR 1628 and provide me with your specific objections recognizing the limitations of passage in the Senate under reconciliation.
Subtitle A—Repeal and Replace of Health-Related Tax Policy
Sec. 201. Recapture excess advance payments of premium tax credits.
Sec. 202. Additional modifications to premium tax credit.
Sec. 203. Premium tax credit.
Sec. 204. Small business tax credit.
Sec. 205. Individual mandate.
Sec. 206. Employer mandate.
Sec. 207. Repeal of the tax on employee health insurance premiums and health plan benefits.
Sec. 208. Repeal of tax on over-the-counter medications.
Sec. 209. Repeal of increase of tax on health savings accounts.
Sec. 210. Repeal of limitations on contributions to flexible spending accounts.
Sec. 211. Repeal of medical device excise tax.
Sec. 212. Repeal of elimination of deduction for expenses allocable to medicare part D subsidy.
Sec. 213. Repeal of increase in income threshold for determining medical care deduction.
Sec. 214. Repeal of Medicare tax increase.
Sec. 215. Refundable tax credit for health insurance coverage.
Sec. 216. Maximum contribution limit to health savings account increased to amount of deductible and out-of-pocket limitation.
Sec. 217. Allow both spouses to make catch-up contributions to the same health savings account.
Sec. 218. Special rule for certain medical expenses incurred before establishment of health savings account.
Subtitle B—Repeal of certain consumer taxes
Sec. 221. Repeal of tax on prescription medications.
Sec. 222. Repeal of health insurance tax.
Subtitle C—Repeal of Tanning Tax
Sec. 231. Repeal of tanning tax.
“Pure nonsense. Read HR 1628 and provide me with your specific objections”
It seems that everyone has a rock solid opinion on the bill UNTIL you ask them to quantify their opinion...reminds me of Watters World on Fox News when Jesse Watters asks the Social Justice Warriors to explain WHY they hate Trump(typical answer is “Trump is Hitler”) or name what was Obama’s biggest success(typical answer is a scared look on their face, realizing they are on camera)!!
the most important part of the AHCA is what it fails to include: a repeal of the regulatory architecture of Obamacare that is responsible for the rising cost of health care.
Title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (i.e., Obamacare) lays out a number of health insurance mandates and regulations that make up the regulatory architecture of Obamacare including guaranteed issue, community rating, essential health benefits, and actuarial value, among others. While the AHCA does repeal actuarial value and partially addresses community rating by moving the age rating ratio that Obamacare imposes from 3:1 to 5:1, the bill falls far short of comprehensively addressing the overall regulatory framework of Obamacare.
Obamacare’s creators designed this regulatory framework with the intent to take control of private health insurance plans and convert them into a highly regulated, quasi-public utility. As one of the law’s supporters explained back in 2010, Obamacare’s design “transforms health insurance into a public accommodation,” and turns private health insurance into “a regulated industry … that, in its restructured form, will therefore take on certain characteristics of a public utility.” It strains credibility to characterize this bill as repealing Obamacare when the mechanisms for the federal government’s takeover of health care remain firmly in place.
Taken together, these mandates and regulations restrict consumer choice and drive up the cost of health care premiums by a national average of 44.5 to 68 percent.
The GOP had seven years to formulate a sound, market based alternative to ObamaCare, and all Nancy Ryan could tell us is we'd have to pass this bill to see what was really in it. We just dodged a bullet. Now let's get it right!