{"id":4149,"date":"2017-03-06T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dougsbriefcase.com\/blog\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2017-03-06T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:12:37","slug":"rand-paul-bill-obamacare-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dougsbriefcase.com\/blog\/rand-paul-bill-obamacare-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rand Paul Bill: Obamacare Plus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Repub\u00adli\u00adcans are expect\u00aded to roll out their high\u00adly antic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00aded bill to repeal and replace Oba\u00admacare this week, but a more obscure mea\u00adsure intro\u00adduced by Rand Paul (R\u2011KY<\/span>) is gain\u00ading atten\u00adtion<\/a> and should not escape notice.<\/p>\n

Paul, who has posi\u00adtioned him\u00adself as a lead\u00ading con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive crit\u00adic of the forth\u00adcom\u00ading GOP<\/span> pro\u00adpos\u00adal, has spon\u00adsored a mea\u00adsure that would leave untouched both Obamacare\u2019s $1 tril\u00adlion in tax\u00ades and its Med\u00adic\u00adaid expansion.<\/p>\n

Stranger still, though Paul has char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized Repub\u00adli\u00adcan plans for an age-relat\u00aded refund\u00adable tax cred\u00adit as \u201cOba\u00admacare Lite,\u201d his bill does the unthink\u00adable: It retains the Oba\u00admacare income-relat\u00aded refund\u00adable tax cred\u00adits.  Read more<\/a> on Forbes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Repub\u00adli\u00adcans are expect\u00aded to roll out their high\u00adly antic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00aded bill to repeal and replace Oba\u00admacare this week, but a more obscure mea\u00adsure intro\u00adduced by Rand Paul (R\u2011KY<\/span>) is gain\u00ading atten\u00adtion and should not escape notice. Paul, who has posi\u00adtioned him\u00adself as \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[124,1302],"tags":[1188,278],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obamacare","category-obamacare-repeal","tag-obamacare","tag-rand-paul"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t