https://www.cato.org/blog/house-gop-leaderships-health-care-bill-obamacare-lite-or-worse
Below are some highlights from the conclusion of this article:
The House
Republican leadership bill does not replace ObamaCare. It merely applies a new
coat of paint to a building that Republicans themselves have already condemned.
Since the most important asset health reformers have is unified Republican
opposition to ObamaCare, at least in theory, it would set the cause of
affordable health care back a decade or more if Republicans end up coalescing
around this bill and putting a Republican imprimatur on ObamaCare’s core
features. If this is the choice, it would be better if Congress simply did
nothing.
Making health
care better, more affordable, and more secure requires first repealing all of
ObamaCare’s regulations, mandates, subsidies, and taxes. Next, Congress should
block-grant the Medicaid program, giving each state a fixed sum of money that
does not change from year to year, combined with full flexibility to target
those funds to the truly needy.
Finally, and crucially, Congress needs to
enact reforms that make health care more affordable, rather than just subsidize
unaffordable care. To make health insurance more affordable, Congress
should free consumers and employers to purchase
health insurance licensed by states other than their own. To drive down health
care prices, Congress should expand existing tax-free health savings accounts
into “large” HSAs. Large HSAs would be a larger effective tax cut than the
Reagan and Bush tax cuts combined, adding $13,000 to the wages of a typical
worker with family coverage. Large HSAs would drive down prices by making
consumers cost-conscious at every margin, and would reduce the problem of
preexisting conditions by freeing consumers to buy portable coverage that stays
with them between jobs. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) have
introduced legislation to create Large HSAs.
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