The House GOP's Health Plan

On Wednesday, House Republicans, led by Speaker Paul Ryan, released a plan for reforming health care in the United States. The plan is part of Ryan’s broader effort to rally his House colleagues around an ambitious policy agenda, covering everything from taxes to national security to improving the safety net for lower-income households.

The health care plan is not yet in legislative form, and so some important details are not specified. Still, it’s an ambitious plan, and represents a real milestone. It is the first proposal released since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 that legitimately can be called the Republican alternative. If Congress were to take up legislation in 2017 to roll back the ACA and replace it with something different, the starting point for drafting the legislation would be this plan.

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