Conservatives Lash Out At ?Republican Welfare? As Opposition To ?Ryancare? Grows
Republicans are proposing to replace tax credits that subsidize health insurance with different tax credits that subsidize health insurance.
WASHINGTON ― The Republican Study Committee, an influential group of House conservatives, called it ?a Republican welfare entitlement.? Conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks, a major force on the right, put it simply: ?This is ObamaCare-lite.? Over at Breitbart News, the lodestar of the Trump administration, readers variously dubbed it ?Ryancare,? ?Obamacare 2.0,? ?Soroscare? or, for the wonks, ?unEarned Income Tax Credit II.?:0074
The brewing conservative opposition to House Speaker Paul Ryan?s reform of the Affordable Care Act centers on what Ryan calls ?advanceable refundable tax credits? that could be used to subsidize the purchase of health insurance.
Conservatives are making the case ― quite accurately ― that such a payment is, in principle, no different than the subsidies already created by the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. For a campaign based on principle, that?s a devastating critique.:mj07:
The only difference, in the end, is that Ryan?s subsidies are smaller than those in the current health care law. ?Writing checks to individuals to purchase insurance is, in principle, Obamacare,? concludes an RSC staff report obtained by The Huffington Post and first reported by Bloomberg.:0074
At its heart, Ryan?s health care plan cuts taxes for the wealthy by hundreds of billions of dollars. It does so by raiding Medicaid, a health care program that is popularly understood to benefit the poor but is also a lifeline to many elderly people. The bill also helps fund the tax cuts by raising the cost of health coverage for those over the age of 55 and those with pre-existing conditions.:lol:
But conservatives warn that the Medicaid cuts aren?t real. Ryan?s plan delays unwinding Medicaid expansion by several years, which would put the onus on a future Congress to suffer the pain.
The RSC doesn?t think that will happen.
?The future reduction is premised on a future Congress being willing to endure the political pressure of letting spending cuts go into effect,? the report warns. ?It is unlikely that any future Congress will have a stronger political will in terms of reforming Obamacare entitlements than the sitting Congress ? thus it is unlikely that the expansion repeal will ever be implemented in reality.?
President Donald Trump offered a less than full-throated endorsement for the plan on Tuesday morning, tweeting that the bill was now out for ?review and negotiation.?
Asked how much of the bill Republicans were willing to negotiate over, House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) said it was a ?legislative process,? and that Republicans were open to a ?thoughtful legislative discussion.?
If the early responses are any indication, Republicans may have to make some changes.
Influential conservative groups spent the early part of Tuesday coming out against the bill. Heritage Action?s CEO, Michael Needham, called it ?bad politics and, more importantly, bad policy.?
?In many ways, the House Republican proposal released last night not only accepts the flawed progressive premises of Obamacare but expands upon them,? Needham said.
Club for Growth President David McIntosh said that if this ?warmed-over substitute for government-run health care? wasn?t changed, the Club for Growth would key vote against it.
And the Koch brothers? primary political group ― Americans for Prosperity ― blasted the bill and demanded a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
?We?re going to be more strongly reminding Republicans of their promises made over the last eight years on the issue of stopping ? or at least rolling back, anyway ? government-run health care,? said Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity. ?We?re telling them to keep their promises ? and they?ve promised an unequivocal repeal of Obamacare.?
Meanwhile, the initial take from the most conservative Senate Republicans was that the bill would have problems in their chamber. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) called the House plan ?a step in the wrong direction,? and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called it ?Obamacare Lite.?
?It will not pass,? Paul tweeted.
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In the end maybe the problem was that it was called Obamacare.
Other than that neo cons will use the same things.
wtf
are they just stupid
