WorldUS House Republicans unveiled long-awaited legislation Monday that would repeal and replace the health care reforms known as Obamacare, largely under the framework that President Donald Trump laid out in his recent congressional address. “After years of Obamacare's broken promises, House Republicans today took an important step,” House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden said in a statement. Republicans argue, however, that insurance premiums have soared for millions of Americans, and that Obamacare has been a job killer. Republicans have not provided a cost figure for the new plan, or estimates on how many people might be covered. Several Republican governors who expanded the low-income Medicaid program through Obamacare warn that the plan could leave their state budgets underwater.

Source: Sunday Times March 07, 2017 10:39 UTC