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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenate GOP Will Try to Repeal Obamacare Mandate
https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/14/senate-gop-will-try-repeal-obamacare-mandate/"SNIP..........
Senate Republican leaders have decided to include a major change to their fast-moving tax cut bill that would repeal a key plank of the Affordable Care Act, trying to accomplish two of their top domestic priorities in a single piece of legislation, the Washington Post reports.
Republicans had so far resisted making the change, worried that injecting health care politics into the process could imperil the tax bill, but many of their members have supported the idea and they appear on the verge of including it.
New York Times: Repealing the so-called individual mandate, as President Trump had urged, would help Republicans with the difficult math problem they face in refining their tax plan. But it also risks reigniting the contentious debate over health care that Republicans found themselves mired in for much of the year.
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Senate GOP Will Try to Repeal Obamacare Mandate (Original Post)
applegrove
Nov 2017
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louis-t
(23,313 posts)1. Otherwise know as McConnells crash and burn plan.
They just can't resist shooting themselves in the foot.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)2. They're sneaking their healthcare bill through the tax cut bill
Ow shit, we've got to hope McCain and Collins do the right thing again?
kelly1mm
(4,739 posts)3. Technically the ACA will remain intact but the 'tax' part, the 'shared
Responsibility payment' will no longer be on the tax return and there would be no mandate to have aca approved insurance. It basically would gut the major source of funding for the ACA while leaving the structure standing.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,458 posts)4. There are billionaires who need tax cuts
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)5. Two-fer, remove funding for ACA coverages and help them
come through on their commitments to the very wealthy. When we finally get control of our nation back, it's going to be deliberately driven desperately in debt, no money to just restore.