Trump: Ballot 'Bloodbath' if GOP Health Plan Fails

But conservatives hate it
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 8, 2017 8:04 AM CST
People in 50s, 60s May Hate ObamaCare Replacement
House Speaker Paul Ryan, center, displays the GOP health care plan.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

House Republicans have laid out their alternative for ObamaCare, and it continues to take heat from both moderates and conservatives. A look at the latest coverage:

  • How many might lose coverage under the new plan? The Congressional Budget Office has not weighed in yet, but Standard & Poor's estimates up to 10 million people. Of those, 2 million to 4 million would drop from the ObamaCare individual markets, while the rest are currently covered by Medicaid, per CNBC.
  • People in their 50s and 60s are particularly vulnerable because the age-related tax credits aren't as generous for them as the subsidies they'd replace, explains the New York Times.

  • President Trump said he is "proud to support the replacement plan," and he warned GOP lawmakers behind closed doors that they face an electoral "bloodbath" if they fail to come through, reports CNN.
  • Vox thinks this tweet is telling: "Biggest obstacle to House health bill: 7 GOP senators on fence—4 who said didn’t adequately protect Medicaid, 3 who say bill too generous." Its assessment of the criticism from both sides is here.
  • Paul Ryan makes his case in a USA Today op-ed that this is the smartest approach. He cites rising premiums under the "collapsing" current law.
  • Ryan's problem, though, is that virtually all conservative health care experts hate the plan. Politico has details. (Another prominent voice on the right, Ann Coulter, wants to know who wrote this "piece of crap," per Mediaite.)
  • Bustle lays out the next steps for the legislation here, while Jonathan Chait at New York can't understand why Mitch McConnell is rushing a bill "everybody hates."
  • Here is the plan itself.
(More ObamaCare stories.)

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