The plan would repeal the statute’s unpopular fines on people who don’t carry health insurance. “It still looks like Obamacare-lite to me,” said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., one of three Senate conservatives who have criticized the GOP bill. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia expanded Medicaid coverage to 11 million people and accepted beefed-up federal spending for the program. Tax increases on higher-earning people, the insurance industry and others used to finance the Obama overhaul’s coverage expansion would be repealed. Instead, a similar tax imposed by Obama’s law on expensive plans, set to take effect in 2020, would begin in 2025.

Source: National Post March 07, 2017 06:15 UTC