Senate repugicans To Announce Plan To Take Away Healthcare from 10 Million Americans

Senate repugicans are about to propose an alternative to Obamacare that involves taking health insurance coverage away from nearly 10 million people, and replacing it with a tax credit.
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On Face The Nation Bill Kristol broke the news,

Senior repugicans senators tomorrow are going to lay out the outlines of legislation, which I think will become real legislation, that would be a wingnut alternative to Obamacare. It would deal with the preexisting condition problem. It would have tax credits for the poor. It would get rid of the ridiculous bureaucracy regulation limitations of Obamacare, and I think this will be Senators Coburn, Senator Coburn who’s retiring very well respected, Senator Hatch whose the ranking Republican of the Finance Committee, will become chairman of Senate Finance next year if Republicans win the Senate, and Senator Burr who’s senior on the Health Committee, so this is a serious piece of legislation. It could get pretty across the board support from repugicans. There’s some tweaks in it. There will be some debate among repugicans and wingnuts about how generous to be with the subsidies, with the tax credits and so forth, but I really think it will make it harder for the president and Democrats to say that repugicans have no alternative.

Bob Schieffer ask Kristol if this could pass, and Kristol’s response revealed the depths of repugican delusions about Obamacare, “If repugicans win the Senate in November, I think in 2015 you could imagine a repugican Senate and a repugican House passing this. The repugican House might even pass it this year, then it’s up to the president whether he wants to abandon Obamacare and sign on to a sensible healthcare reform.”
The plan that Kristol hinted at sounds a lot like John McCain’s healthcare reform plan when he ran for office in 2008. Basically, the repugican plan is gut the ACA’s regulations and requirements that insurance companies have to sell a good product at an affordable price, kill the ACA and replace it with a tax credit.
The practical effect of what repugicans are proposing is to take away access to healthcare from the 3 million plus who have signed up through the exchanges and the 6.3 million people who are eligible for coverage under the Medicaid expansion.
So the repugican plan is to take healthcare away from nearly 10 million Americans, and replace their health insurance with a tax credit. The repugican plan would take away access to healthcare for 20 million Americans, and it will do nothing to cover the uninsured and expand coverage.
The repugicans aren’t interested in proposing real healthcare reform. They are trying to score cheap political points by reviving and tweaking the same garbage healthcare proposal they have been pushing for nearly a decade. By proposing a healthcare reform that would take away coverage from millions of people, The repugicans are setting themselves up for a major political fall.
In short, the repugican plan to reform healthcare is to make sure that fewer people have health insurance. I can’t wait for them to try and sell this to voters ahead of 2014 election. This is an example of how the repugican cabal excels at finding new and different ways to self destruct. Please proceed, repugicans. Please proceed.