TPPF Call on ObamaCare Replacement: “Mend and Expand, Not Repeal and Replace”

I just got off a conference call with the Texas Public Policy Foundation on the House GOP ObamaCare replacement discussed yesterday. Here are some brief notes from the call:

Chris Jacobs:

  • Only one mandate repealed, retains the rest and maintains federal control over health care.
  • The current bill doesn’t limit Medicaid expansion the way the 2015 bill did.
  • Federal subsidies for insurers remain.
  • The bill actually increases federal control of health care.
  • Conservatives need people to stand up for actual repeal of ObamaCare.
  • Dr. Deane Waldman:

  • The GOP treatment plan doesn’t address why the patient is actually sick.
  • The problem is federal control of the health care system.
  • It’s not repeal and replace, it’s mend and expand.
  • Need control at the state level.
  • Chip Roy:

  • Fundamentally not a repeal of ObamaCare.
  • Maintains the medicaid expansion to able-bodied adults.
  • Maintains the preventative and contraception mandate.
  • Maintains the incentive to drive more people into Medicaid.
  • I asked a followup question of Chris Jacobs about the preventative and contraception mandate. He said it’s left entirely in place. While that mandate can be eliminated administratively by HHS Secretary Tom Price, Democrats could reinstitute it by the same method in the future.

    Chip Roy: This bill fundamentally embraces all that is wrong with ObamaCare.

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    One Response to “TPPF Call on ObamaCare Replacement: “Mend and Expand, Not Repeal and Replace””

    1. martywd says:

      From what I’ve read (in several detailed posts at ‘The Last Refuge’)…

      ‘Repeal’ (of Obamacare) is not going to happen without 60 votes in the Senate. Assuming that _all_ the Senate GOPer’s could be relied on to vote for Repeal, that would only be 52 votes for Repeal. At present where is the GOP going to find the additional 8 Democrat votes needed to get to 60? They are not. Thus there will be no successful Repeal at this point in time.

      The GOP had ~6 years to figure a strategy for this issue and did not. Apparently? What a bunch of slackers!
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