House Repub­li­cans are expect­ed to roll out their high­ly antic­i­pat­ed bill to repeal and replace Oba­macare this week, but a more obscure mea­sure intro­duced by Rand Paul (R‑KY) is gain­ing atten­tion and should not escape notice.

Paul, who has posi­tioned him­self as a lead­ing con­ser­v­a­tive crit­ic of the forth­com­ing GOP pro­pos­al, has spon­sored a mea­sure that would leave untouched both Obamacare’s $1 tril­lion in tax­es and its Med­ic­aid expansion.

Stranger still, though Paul has char­ac­ter­ized Repub­li­can plans for an age-relat­ed refund­able tax cred­it as “Oba­macare Lite,” his bill does the unthink­able: It retains the Oba­macare income-relat­ed refund­able tax cred­its.  Read more on Forbes.