THE COMING BATTLE OVER OBAMACARE REPLACEMENT

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Human Events:

Now that Republicans have taken both houses of Congress, it is likely they will in the spring pass an Obamacare replacement that will land on President Barack Obama’s desk to be vetoed. That will mark a point at which Republicans must choose to embrace one or more plans for Obamacare replacement. Several have been put forward in the past, but none that actually would end up at the White House.

 

Congressional Republicans agree about the majority of what they want to do when it comes to replacing Obamacare. Here are eight things they agree about:

 

They want to end the tax bias in favor of employer-sponsored health insurance to create full portability (either through a tax credit, deductibility, or another method);

 

They want to reform medical malpractice laws in a Constitutional manner (likely through carrot incentives to the states);

 

They want to allow for insurance purchases across state lines;

 

They want to support or repair state-level pre-existing condition pools;

 

They want to fully block-grant Medicaid;

 

They want to shift Medicare to premium support;