The first step is to introduce legislation that would allow any state to opt out of all of ObamaCare’s mandates, regulations, taxes and requirements, and instead opt into a far simpler and more flexible alternative system. In that system, state residents not offered health coverage by their employers could receive a federally funded, age-based credit for the purchase of any state-approved health-insurance product—including those bought outside of any exchange and regardless of whether they meet ObamaCare’s coverage requirements.
And if the legislation is vetoed?
Or just give them the cash and forget about healthcare since this would lead directly to bringing back cost shifting. Think people!
“And if the legislation is vetoed?”
Really, you think they don’t realize that Obama would veto any such legislation?
Obviously, they’re suggesting doing this to provide the Republicans with a viable health care platform for 2016, since bringing back the pre-Obamacare status quo is a non-starter.
“And if the legislation is vetoed?”
Which is will be. At this point, Obama cannot make it seem like the ACA wan’t perfect the first time. Not when he’s so often made his stance on no modification whatsoever and that the ACA was important enough to lie to people to get it to pass.
This is a good first step. It is encouraging to see Republicans get behind a program that gives an explicit tax credit to workers who are not offered health insurance by their employer. Republicans in general have ignored this group before.
One might say that this is an example of Obama moving the health care debate to the left. That is a rarely discussed virtue of passing partisan legislation,