Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare while imposing a delay on replacement plans could prove to be fiscally problematic.
From strictly a budgetary perspective, the “repeal and replace” plan being floated by Republicans can be viewed as simply an immediate $680 billion tax cut bill combined with an uncertain promise to achieve savings down the road.
Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare while imposing a delay on replacement plans could prove to be fiscally problematic.
From strictly a budgetary perspective, the “repeal and replace” plan being floated by Republicans can be viewed as simply an immediate $680 billion tax cut bill combined with an uncertain promise to achieve savings down the road.
Furthermore, those savings can only come from reducing the number of people with insurance or dramatically lowering the generosity of that insurance — both politically unpopular options — because you can’t keep just the good parts of Obamacare (for instance the ban on exclusion for pre-existing conditions) without the “bad” parts (subsidies for insurance and some type of mandate to keep healthy people in the insurance market).
A number of analysts have noted the difficulties with “repeal and delay.”
