The replacement for Obamacare has been rolled out at last, almost. If nothing else, Republicans nailed the website URL with a not-so-subtle dig at Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
The American Health Care Act:
→ Drive down costs
→ Encourage competition
→ Expand access to carehttps://t.co/Ut0DDR4wzG#RepealAndReplace— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) March 7, 2017
READ the House GOP #Obamacare repeal & replace plan here: https://t.co/yPbJQBHS45
— House Budget GOP (@housebudgetGOP) March 6, 2017
Our plan will modernize #Medicaid to protect the most vulnerable. #ReadTheBill
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) March 7, 2017
Our plan will give states the flexibility they need through the Patient and State Stability Fund. #RepealAndReplace
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) March 7, 2017
Our plan will enhance #HSAs, empowering families & individuals to spend their money how they see fit. #ReadTheBill
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) March 7, 2017
Our plan will empower consumers and incentivize competition with advanceable, refundable tax credits. #RepealAndReplace
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) March 7, 2017
Our plan will eliminate costly insurance mandates & provide more affordable coverage options. #ReadTheBill
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) March 7, 2017
House just introduced the bill to #RepealAndReplace #Obamacare. Time to end this nightmare. https://t.co/z4A27JwaXX
— President Trump (@POTUS) March 7, 2017
The House GOP released a two-page fact sheet Monday, and a lot of conservatives aren’t happy that the Affordable Care Act is set to make way for … the American Health Care Act. It would be nice to think that the ACA and the AHCA were as different as their initials are similar, but those subsidies are are sticking out like a sore thumb.
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Dana Loesch didn’t so much shoot the proposed legislation full of holes as much as point out the ones already in it leaking money.
We didn’t protest Obamacare for 8 years to get Obamacare 2.0 from congressional Republicans.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 7, 2017
“We have to reform entitlements!” says the party that continues the entitlement in bureaucratic health care.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 7, 2017
Pushing a bill that continues subsidies is the exact opposite of “draining the swamp.” Midterms come fast, GOP.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 7, 2017
I get the baby step argument. I don’t get the progressive argument adopted by some that this is it or nothing.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 7, 2017
But included in the very first act should be to end subsidies and work to lower costs. Gov’t intervention is driving up cost of care.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 7, 2017
Don’t say “repeal and replace” when you really mean “tinker with.”
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 7, 2017
Also, congressional republicans still suck out loud at messaging. Head + wall.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 7, 2017
Rep. Justin Amash is also looking at the AHCA and seeing Obamacare 2.0.
Obamacare 2.0 https://t.co/p0zKkMD3UT
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) March 6, 2017
Not everyone agrees that the GOP is looking at Obamacare 2.0 here; Sen. Rand Paul prefers to call it, “Obamacare Lite.”
Still have not seen an official version of the House Obamacare replacement bill, but from media reports this sure looks like Obamacare Lite!
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 6, 2017
Republicans should have picked another priority. This is going to be a disaster.
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) March 7, 2017
If this is the plan, it's not going to get passed and it's going to torpedo Ryan's tax reform too. pic.twitter.com/ySWGKdbwKN
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) March 7, 2017
It’s not exactly a slam-dunk.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Freedom Caucus trashes bill: "It's subsidies for unaffordable health care, subsidies for unaffordable premiums."
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) March 7, 2017
Still some work to do with the Freedom Caucus on health care. First House votes on Tuesday should be interesting https://t.co/Vb7BACe999
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) March 7, 2017
You don’t say?
.@Jim_Jordan, @RepDaveBrat & @justinamash among the HFC members who still don't like the bill. https://t.co/HSMBtFq6a6
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) March 7, 2017
.@Jim_Jordan just told me this bill doesn’t work, says he doesn’t understand why they aren’t doing the clean repeal that they passed in 2015
— Eliza Collins (@elizacollins1) March 7, 2017
.@Jim_Jordan: "I don’t think this is what we told the voters.” Wants no refundable tax credits, cadillac tax, Medicaid expansion.
— Eliza Collins (@elizacollins1) March 7, 2017
They lied all along: Republicans plan to ‘repair’ not repeal Obamacare https://t.co/ivA2hyfeL5
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) March 7, 2017
OK, so maybe everyone should take a minute to read it and find out what’s in it before declaring the AHCA another disaster … but it sure seems at this point that the GOP just couldn’t bear to tear off the Band-Aid and be done with it.
So it sounds like the House leadership's #Obamacare "repeal" plan went from a mediocre draft to a truly awful bill? Yep, that's about right.
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) March 7, 2017
There is no reason to cater to the Left's socialized medicine presumptions. None. Rs will get no credit & all blame. https://t.co/mUKEtiBadh pic.twitter.com/RNo9nctdWU
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) March 7, 2017
Every halfhearted nibbling around the edges by Rs will be portrayed as deranged free-market extremism. So just do the right thing, maybe?
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) March 7, 2017
Has @PRyan honestly not learned he will *always* be the bad guy? Things need not be this complicated. Stop the too-cute-by-half garbage. https://t.co/aDKWSPmefc
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) March 7, 2017
As @philipaklein noted, House plan keeps #Obamacare's disastrous Medicaid expansion (and insane federal match rate) for THREE MORE YEARS: pic.twitter.com/ouU2ZBpior
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) March 7, 2017
Leadership wants to spend tens of billions of additional federal dollars on welfare for working-age adults with no kids & no disabilities. https://t.co/coLtRUXrCJ
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) March 7, 2017
.@freedomcaucus & @RepublicanStudy: "We will support nothing less than the 2015 repeal bill Congress approved."@PRyan: "Hold my beer."
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) March 7, 2017
My health insurance plan:
Repeal every word of ObamaCare
Establish HSAs with pre-tax dollar limits (negotiable level)
Call it a day.
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) March 7, 2017
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