Wisconsin governor plans to repeal and replace Obamacare

The governor of Wisconsin has started the beginning stages of attempting to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

Governor Scott Walker presented his first big policy proposal Tuesday in Minnesota. He has stated that ObamaCare is a backwards approach and is at fault for driving health care costs up and reducing access to medical care for a large amount of people, according to Fox News.

There are five steps to Walker’s plan called, “Day One Patient Freedom Plan.”

1.Repealing ObamaCare in its entirety, 2. Ensuring affordable and accessible health insurance for everyone, 3. Making health care more efficient, effective and accountable by empowering the states, 4. Increasing quality and choice through innovation, 5. Providing financial stability for families and taxpayers.

“Simple as this – it starts out with premise on my first day as president, I will send legislation to once and for all repeal ObamaCare entirely,” Walker said at a speech in at Minnesota warehouse.

But in order for Walker to begin his crusade to repeal ObamaCare, he would first have to secure 60 votes in the Senate which is currently made up of only 54 Republicans with the possibility of that number decreasing further after the 2016 election.

Within his detailed plan is the goal to provide refundable tax credits to individuals who do not have an employer-based coverage plan to make health insurance affordable for them, which would allow all Americans to look for insurance even across state lines while continuing to protect those with pre-existing conditions.

“The past five years have clearly demonstrated that giving Washington top-down control over regulating health care coverage does not work. This would include giving states the ability to run Medicaid and ‘reorganize it into smaller, focused parts.’”

Another bullet point in the plan is the ability for people to pool together and purchase insurance coverage as a group plan.

 

 

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