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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobert Reich: The 3 Big Reasons Republicans Cant Replace Obamacare
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/robert-reich-3-big-reasons-republicans-cant-replace-obamacareFirst, Republicans say they want the replacement to be market-based. But Obamacare is already market based relying on private, for profit health insurers.
Second, every part of Obamacare depends on every other part. Trump says hed like to continue to bar insurers from denying coverage to individuals with preexisting conditions.
Which gets us to the third big reason Republicans cant come up with a replacement. Revoking the tax increases in Obamacare a key part of the repeal would make it impossible to finance these subsidies.
The two biggest of these taxes a 3.8-percentage-point surtax on dividends, interest and other unearned income; and a 0.9-percentage-point increase in the payroll tax that helps fund Medicare are also the most progressive. They apply only to people earning more than $200,000 per year.
Immediately repealing these taxes, as the GOP says it intends to do, will put an average of $33,000 in the hands of the richest 1 percent this year alone, and a whopping $197,000 into the hands of the top 0.1 percent, according to the Tax Policy Center.
It would also increase the taxes of families earning between $10,000 and $75,000 including just about all of Trumps working class voters.
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Robert Reich: The 3 Big Reasons Republicans Cant Replace Obamacare (Original Post)
Jimbo101
Jan 2017
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"would make it impossible to finance these subsidies." - no it wouldn't....
PoliticAverse
Jan 2017
#2
If the R's end Obamacare, a whole lot of people will be driven into poverty and/or die.
Girard442
Jan 2017
#3
myohmy2
(3,177 posts)1. we shouldn't...
...help or cooperate with the pukes at all...
...let the pukes do what they want and let's hammer them every inch of the way...they own the healthcare issue now, let's see how they fuck it up...
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)2. "would make it impossible to finance these subsidies." - no it wouldn't....
they could just deficit finance them.
Girard442
(6,085 posts)3. If the R's end Obamacare, a whole lot of people will be driven into poverty and/or die.
This would stop them how?
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)4. They have had six years to come with a replacement, they did not.
They have had six years to make improvements, they did not. Yes there needs to be some improvements, surely there should be enough smart people in Congress to make ACA better if they could get the blinders off and work enough days this year.