The GOP plan would stop the tax breaks if the benefits cost too much as a way to pay for the plan. Employers currently get big tax breaks for offering good health plans to employees. That's a 300 percent increase from what it will pay with the plan as-is. But coupled with the ability to cut people off and cut benefits, the ability to pay plans less, there's not much protection."Bevin Working to Change Medicaid ExpansionGov. Under the GOP's plan, those changes would not need federal government approval; states could change the program as they see fit.
| Getty Exclusive: Leaked GOP Obamacare replacement shrinks subsidies, Medicaid expansion The replacement would be paid for by limiting tax breaks on generous health plans people get at work. A draft House Republican repeal bill would dismantle the Obamacare subsidies and scrap its Medicaid expansion, according to a copy of the proposal obtained by POLITICO. In place of the Obamacare subsidies, the House bill starting in 2020 would give tax credits — based on age instead of income. CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated with the timing of the House GOP's plans for releasing a health care bill. And while health care economists on both sides of the aisle favor tax-limits along those lines, politically it's a hard sell.
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