McKinley meets with health care officials to discuss effects of possible Obamacare repeal
McKinley met with officials from
"He's very good about getting down to the heart of issues and ... how to address those things back in
They learned that the ACA won't simply be dropped. It will be funded for a transition period of two to three years. "We don't know exactly what that's going to look like."
McKinley reviewed a few of the ACA's -- called Obamacare by most -- problems. Among them, the individual mandate, with a penalty viewed by the Supreme Court as a tax, and the soaring costs of healthcare.
He mentioned one woman who works for a small company of 12 to 15 people and makes
Congressional leaders expect to repeal the ACA by early February, he said. With the planned transition, "The consumer will not see any difference."
Rep.
Price will likely use his own bill, HR 2300, the Empowering Patients First Act, as the basis.
An 11-page summary of the act, provided by McKinley, shows such features as refundable tax credits for health insurance coverage; health savings accounts with a one-time,
"There's going to be some interesting components of it," he said. "I feel pretty good about it."
Leaders aim to make passage a bipartisan affair, McKinley said. "We're not going to ram something down as they did previously."
McKinley said he doesn't yet know what a Trump presidency will look like. "I think he's going to shake things up and he's going to bring more businesses sense to
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