Should we amend Obamacare to repeal health coverage mandates, and other stipulations?
Bill Summary
This bill eliminates individual and employer health coverage mandates under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) while broadening the choices available for obtaining and financing affordable health insurance coverage. Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
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Opponents say
• Pre-existing conditions will continue to be covered, but because coverage will no longer be mandated, older, sicker people will see their costs skyrocket as healthier, younger people drop their health insurance.
• The tax credits are insufficient to make a difference and will end up serving as a new entitlement program that benefits wealthy Americans more than the middle class.
• This bill fails to remove the cost-raising 40% “Cadillac” tax on high quality insurance plans, which punishes insurers and customers for offering and purchasing respectively a desirable product.
• Federal support for medicaid will be reduced as states can opt to receive federal Medicaid funding as a block grant for adults and children in the program, regardless of increases in enrollment.
• 24 million Americans will lose health coverage over the next decade with this bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
• The tax credits are insufficient to make a difference and will end up serving as a new entitlement program that benefits wealthy Americans more than the middle class.
• This bill fails to remove the cost-raising 40% “Cadillac” tax on high quality insurance plans, which punishes insurers and customers for offering and purchasing respectively a desirable product.
• Federal support for medicaid will be reduced as states can opt to receive federal Medicaid funding as a block grant for adults and children in the program, regardless of increases in enrollment.
• 24 million Americans will lose health coverage over the next decade with this bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Proponents say
• This bill will empower Americans to make their own healthcare choices and save money “in an account that is not use-it-or-lose-it”
• AHCA repeals the individual mandate, which is an unconstitutional attack on individual freedom.
• The federal deficit will be reduced by $337 billion over the next ten years according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Tax credits ($2,500 for every American, with an additional $1,500 per dependent child) will allow American families to plan and save for their health care futures.
• Many of the perversions of PPACA have been removed, while still preserving the most popular provisions of Obama’s healthcare bill with slight amendments, such as medicaid expansion until 2020, coverage of youths under a parent's plan until the age of 26, and a prohibition on insurers overcharging or excluding individuals with pre-existing conditions.
• AHCA repeals the individual mandate, which is an unconstitutional attack on individual freedom.
• The federal deficit will be reduced by $337 billion over the next ten years according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Tax credits ($2,500 for every American, with an additional $1,500 per dependent child) will allow American families to plan and save for their health care futures.
• Many of the perversions of PPACA have been removed, while still preserving the most popular provisions of Obama’s healthcare bill with slight amendments, such as medicaid expansion until 2020, coverage of youths under a parent's plan until the age of 26, and a prohibition on insurers overcharging or excluding individuals with pre-existing conditions.
- Chairman Diane Black Opening Statement: Markup of the American Health Care Act
- Q&A: Republican Health Care Bill Facts
- Republican Health Care Bill amendments
- The Health-Care Double Bind
- The CBO says as many as 24 million more Americans could be uninsured under ‘Trumpcare’
- White House Statement: The Administration strongly supports H.R. 1628
- Farm Bureau Supports ACA Repeal Legislation
- Congressional Budget Office Analysis
- Pros and Cons of the American Health Care Act
- PolitiFact’s guide to the GOP amendment to health care bill
