{"id":326989,"date":"2017-09-20T23:58:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/heres-a-basic-gestalt-on-the-obamacare-repeal-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T23:58:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T22:58:38","slug":"heres-a-basic-gestalt-on-the-obamacare-repeal-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/heres-a-basic-gestalt-on-the-obamacare-repeal-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s a Basic Gestalt on the Obamacare Repeal Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>The bill needs improvements, says Sen. Paul<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kit Daniels<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>Sept. 20, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick breakdown of the latest Obamacare repeal bill, officially known as the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ends both the employer and the individual mandates, retroactively back to Dec. 31, 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gives power back to the states to build their own healthcare programs and rewards states that are fiscally responsible with healthcare <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Starts winding down Obamacare, with a complete end by 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cuts billions from federal Medicaid expansion<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kills tax breaks given to insurance companies<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Repeals Obamacare\u2019s restrictions of Health Savings Accounts, allowing Americans to use them for cover primary care services and health insurance premiums<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gives states the right to cut ineligible recipients from Medicaid and discretion to block Obamacare regulations<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Repeals the Obamacare Medical Device Tax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The bill isn\u2019t perfect yet, however.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cassidy.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/LYN17709.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its current draft<\/a>, it doesn\u2019t repeal many of Obamacare\u2019s taxes, including the Health Insurance Tax going into effect in 2018 which will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/how-the-health-insurance-tax-will-impact-2018-premiums-2471090366.html\"><span class=\"s3\">raise premiums for seniors and small business employees<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Additionally, there\u00a0are other factors exacerbated by Obamacare that are fueling health care<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0costs which Graham-Cassidy doesn\u2019t yet address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) spoke out against these aspects of the bill, suggesting it amounted to \u201camnesty for Obamacare.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GrahamCassidy?src=hash\">#GrahamCassidy<\/a> is amnesty for Obamacare. It keeps it, it does not repeal it. I will keep working with the President for real repeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/910478982046502912\">September 20, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To improve upon this, Paul said he was already talking to President Trump about allowing Americans to buy healthcare across state lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIf 15 million people could get together to buy their insurance, guess what, they would get a cheaper price, they would get protection against preexisting conditions, and I think they&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/heres-a-basic-gestalt-on-the-obamacare-repeal-bill.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bill needs improvements, says Sen. Paul Kit DanielsPrison Planet.comSept. 20, 2017 Here\u2019s a quick breakdown of the latest Obamacare repeal bill, officially known as the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill: Ends both the employer and the individual mandates, retroactively back to Dec. 31, 2015 Gives power back to the states to build their own healthcare programs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}