H.R. 5444 - The Private Option Health Care Act

[beowolfe]

The Private Option Health Care Act gives control of health care back into the hands of individuals through tax credits and tax deductions, improving Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Savings Accounts. Specifically, the bill:

A. Provides all Americans with a tax credit for 100% of health care expenses. The tax credit is fully refundable against both income and payroll taxes;
B. Allows individuals to roll over unused amounts in cafeteria plans and Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA);
C. Provides a tax credit for premiums for high-deductible insurance policies connected with a Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and allows seniors to use funds in HSAs to pay for medigap policies;
D. Repeals the 7.5% threshold for the deduction of medical expenses, thus making all medical expenses tax deductible.

Campaign For Liberty — Introducing the Private Option Health Care Act

This legislation would also repeal Obamacare.

H.R. 5444: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care... (GovTrack.us)

Been there, done that..........it didn't work.

 

[Greenbeard]

Hmmmmm, Going to have to wait and see how far this goes with the current politicians. Could be an answer that we are looking for.

Paul's bill doesn't pay much attention to cost, quality, or access issues. It's mostly a few proposals that root around the edge of the health care system, coupled with an across-state-lines proposal that has the potential to be disastrous.

If they are the same as the Democratic Party, why do they vote the opposite on every bill?

I disagree with the sentiment that the parties are the same but, on this particular issue, the Senate Republican counterproposal to the Clinton health care plan in 1993 was eerily similar to the new reform law in numerous ways. Have a look: the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act of 1993 (read the CRS summary at that link).

 

[Polk]

You are not going to repeal anything..

The GOP had a chance to establish a healthcare plan for 8 years, they chose to block all proposals

The GOP had a chance to include key provisions in the existing Health Plan, they chose to try to block it

What makes you think they will do anything now?

Well obviously this is not going to pass. It's a Democratically controlled Congress, and this probably won't even make it out of committee. And of course the GOP won't get behind repealing Obamacare, because they're the same as the Democratic Party.

No, they won't get behind it because the key provisions are popular, and the unpopular provisions are required to make the others work.