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Koch groups slam GOP Obamacare repeal
The Kochs' network of donors have plowed big sums — $42 million on TV ads during the 2016 election alone — to help Republicans in Congress retain their majority and push for the defeat of President Obama's signature health-care law. The network also has dispatched thousands of activists to rallies and marches to oppose the law since it was first debated in Congress in 2009.
At a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday attended by about 200 Koch-aligned activists, Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips warned that Republicans "will have the shortest-lived majority in the modern era" of they don't toss the law on "the ash heap of history."
The House Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare eliminates the mandate that most Americans have health insurance and replaces it with a system of income-based tax credits to encourage people to buy insurance on the open market. Luke Hilgemann, Americans for Prosperity's CEO, said those tax credits amount to a new government entitlement program, opposed by the free-market conservatives aligned with the Kochs.
Koch groups slam GOP Obamacare repeal
Ha Ha darn if they do and darn if they don't. Get ready for the screw job, they made a promise to the Koch brothers, see you really do not mean anything to the GOP, only the big corps. I listen as they lie on TV, the GOP has done all it could to hurt the ACA.
The Kochs' network of donors have plowed big sums — $42 million on TV ads during the 2016 election alone — to help Republicans in Congress retain their majority and push for the defeat of President Obama's signature health-care law. The network also has dispatched thousands of activists to rallies and marches to oppose the law since it was first debated in Congress in 2009.
At a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday attended by about 200 Koch-aligned activists, Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips warned that Republicans "will have the shortest-lived majority in the modern era" of they don't toss the law on "the ash heap of history."
The House Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare eliminates the mandate that most Americans have health insurance and replaces it with a system of income-based tax credits to encourage people to buy insurance on the open market. Luke Hilgemann, Americans for Prosperity's CEO, said those tax credits amount to a new government entitlement program, opposed by the free-market conservatives aligned with the Kochs.
Koch groups slam GOP Obamacare repeal
Ha Ha darn if they do and darn if they don't. Get ready for the screw job, they made a promise to the Koch brothers, see you really do not mean anything to the GOP, only the big corps. I listen as they lie on TV, the GOP has done all it could to hurt the ACA.