Hill GOP asks governors to save Obamacare repeal

Just as Obamacare reaches an all-time high in favorability among USA voters, House Republicans are gearing up to introduce their so-called replacement plan that would dismantle the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies and scrap its Medicaid expansion.

“Boehner said, “[Congressional Republicans will] fix Obamacare, and I shouldn’t have called it repeal-and-replace because that’s not what’s going to happen”. “You can’t cut Medicaid, there’s just no way about it”, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said on Friday, reflecting the reality a lot of top state executives are facing when it comes to the pending health care overhaul in Congress.

A GOP draft bill, recently obtained by Politico, would likely do little to assuage these concerns.

U.S. Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, D-Newport News, said Friday that Americans know repealing the ACA would make things worse.

Heitkamp’s office said she has hosted three events over the past few days in Grand Forks and Drayton, including two events with Sen. Republicans have fought to repeal the law for years.

The Republican summary said those Americans losing Medicaid coverage would be eligible for a monthly tax exemption to help lower the cost of health insurance. The House Freedom Caucus has roughly 40 members and at least half a dozen Republican senators have expressed reservations about repealing Obamacare without a coherent replacement plan. The question was less about whether the Republican-led government would uproot the existing health care system and more about what they’d put in its place.

If the federal Affordable Care Act is repealed in its entirety, the county would have to once again absorb the costs of providing health care to several thousand indigent residents who now receive health insurance through the act’s expanded Medicaid program – called Medi-Cal in California. “6 in 10 people said they did not favor current GOP proposals for turning control of Medicaid, the federal-state program for low-income residents, over to the states or changing the federal funding method”.

In addition to this, the states that did not expand Medicaid could get more money through an increased federal disproportionate share payments.

Boehner’s successor, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Vice President Mike Pence have promised to repeal the landmark legislation.

The swelling support for the ACA has coincided with the looming fulfillment of the Republican Party’s long-touted promise to repeal and replace the law. Those would be replaced by tax credits based on a person’s age. Constituents questioned elected officials about plans to defund Planned Parenthood, change Medicaid funding to state block grants and repeal the ACA.

Republicans in congress are ideologically opposed to regulating prices and argue that permitting insurers to sell policies across state lines would encourage competition and pull down costs.