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The New York Times mirrored much of the coverage today in reporting that Jeb Bush offered "a detailed proposal" to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with a more conservative health care plan. NPR called it a "rare," "detailed proposal."
Interesting, I thought, let's see the policy specifics:
* Repeals the ACA in its entirety.
* Repeals the Medicaid expansion.
* Repeals guaranteed coverage for preexisting conditions.
* Repeals the ACA subsidies and insurance exchanges.
* Repeals the employer mandate.
* Repeals the minimum coverage requirements.
* Repeals the elimination of caps on total policy coverage.
* Changes medicaid to a capped, block grant program.
* Imposes an income tax on certain employer provided health care.
I suppose that is specific, although nothing new in Republican terms. But wait? What is Jeb Bush's "detailed proposal" to replace the ACA?
An increased limit for health savings accounts and a tax credit "to help" people buy catastrophic, high deductible insurance. A tax credit? How much? Jeb won't say - although he promises that it won't be tied to income or need. (Nice)
For pete's sake. Dear journalists: You can not report that Jeb Bush has unveiled a rare and detailed health insurance policy proposal to replace Obamacare when all he has said is that he will offer people a tax credit in an unidentified amount to "help pay" for some portion of a shitty catastrophic health policy (with purposefully open terms).
And - aside from the lack of specifics - you can't call Jeb's proposal a plan to "replace" Obamacare at all. It is a plan to repeal Obamacare, to go exactly back to the days before Obamacare where millions went without adequate health insurance. Oh, and one day, Jeb plans to offer a tax credit . . . in some amount . . . to help pay for the insurance he proposes to take away from you. . . in great detail.