DISGUSTING! I READ GOPe NEW HEALTHCARE PROPOSAL! RAND PAUL IS RIGHT! ITS OBAMACARE LIGHT! HERE IS THE PROOF! ITS NOT REPEAL AND REPLACE ITS AMEND AND KEEP!

I tried reading it but a lot of it is amendments to a dozen other laws so you'd have to do a lot of cross-checking to understand what is being changed.

Early on, there is a lot in it that discusses changes to SS and Medicare, although I'm not sure I understand why. Maybe PPACA also impacted those programs?

Starting at page 45, it repeals the cost-sharing subsidy of the PPACA (section 1402). This was the part of Obamacare that would help you pay for coverage if you were under a certain income amount.

It appears to be replaced by a new thing called the "Patient and State Stability Fund" where the federal government provides funds to each state + DC to administer their own type of PPACA. Each state must file an application to receive them.

The amounts provided to each state are as follows:

2018: $15 billion 2019: $15 billion 2020 through 2026: $10 billion

The next part I get lost on. "Sec. 133 Continuous Health Insurance Coverage Incentive". It describes a policy where penalties are imposed on individual or small group market policy holders, but I think they omitted a "not" after "shall" (line 10 of sec 2711).

The next bits appear to be repeals?

  1. Repeal of tanning tax
  2. After 12/31/2017, repeal of health insurance tax
  3. Repeal of net investment income tax
  4. Repeal and replace of health-related tax policy - Does not apply until 1/1/2020 -
    • There are bits in here about making the employer mandate $0, repeal tax on health insurance benefits, repeal tax on OTC meds, repeal tax on HSAs, repeal limits on contributions to FSAs, repeal of medical device excise tax, bunch of medicare repeals, what looks like a tax credit if you can show you had health coverage, advance payment of this credit (so you can claim it early), excess coverage can be credited to a HSA(need to look back at this later), increased contribution limits to HSAs, let both spouses make catch up contributions to HSAs, and finally retroactive coverage of medical expenses if you establish a HSA within 60 days of the incur.
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