{"id":2064,"date":"2017-11-15T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/republican-tax-plan-raises-taxes-and-health-care-premiums\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:38:00","slug":"republican-tax-plan-raises-taxes-and-health-care-premiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/republican-tax-plan-raises-taxes-and-health-care-premiums\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Tax Plan Raises Taxes And Health Care Premiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest edition of the Senate Republican tax plan released late last night would raise health care insurance premiums on middle-class families, while also raising their taxes, and would leave millions more without health insurance &ndash; all in the interest of making tax cuts for wealthy corporations permanent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Republican tax plan would repeal the individual mandate, which 16 patient and<\/strong><strong> consumer groups called &ldquo;a step backwards for individuals and families.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-gop-tax-plan-20171114-story.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>: &ldquo;On Tuesday, <strong>16 leading consumer and patient groups<\/strong> together expressed alarm at the proposal. &lsquo;Repealing the individual mandate without otherwise increasing access to adequate, affordable health insurance is a step backwards for individuals and families,&rsquo; noted the groups, which include the American Heart Assn., the American Lung Assn., the March of Dimes, Consumers Union and the advocacy arm of the American Cancer Society.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Republican tax plan could trigger $25 billion in cuts to Medicare and leave 13 million more Americans without health insurance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/budget\/360300-tax-bill-could-spur-25-billion-in-medicare-cuts-cbo\">The Hill<\/a>: &ldquo;The GOP tax bill could trigger automatic cuts worth $136 billion from mandatory spending in 2018, including <strong>$25 billion in Medicare cuts<\/strong>, if Congress doesn&rsquo;t find another way to offset its deficit increases, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/115th-congress-2017-2018\/reports\/53300-individualmandate.pdf\">CBO<\/a>: &ldquo;The number of people with health insurance would decrease by 4 million in 2019 and <strong>13 million<\/strong> in 2027.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The tax plan would raise premiums by double-digits and cause insurers to leave markets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/gop-plans-repeal-obamacare-mandate-health-coverage-n820791\">NBC News<\/a>: &ldquo;Premiums on the individual insurance market would also go up <strong>10 percent<\/strong> as a result.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/tax-reform-affordable-care-act-mandate_us_5a0b903be4b00a6eece51a0e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009\">Huffington Post<\/a>: &ldquo;But insurers would almost surely react by raising premiums even higher than they would otherwise and, in some cases, <strong>abandoning markets where they were planning to keep selling coverage<\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>These changes to the tax plan, aimed at making tax cuts for wealthy corporations permanent, would especially hurt lower- and middle-income families, who already got the short end of the stick from the Republican tax plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/14\/us\/politics\/tax-plan-senate-obamacare-individual-mandate-trump.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a>: &ldquo;They also have made a calculated gamble to help speed their bill to passage on a party-line vote: Republicans revealed late Tuesday they would <strong>set all of their tax cuts for individuals to expire at the end of 2025<\/strong>, to comply with a procedural requirement. Their <strong>deep cut in the corporate tax rate would remain permanent<\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/10\/us\/politics\/senate-tax-bill.html\">New York Times<\/a>: &ldquo;Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, acknowledged on Friday that the Republican tax plan might result in a tax hike for some working Americans, saying he &lsquo;misspoke&rsquo; days earlier when he said that &lsquo;nobody in the middle class is going to get a tax increase&rsquo; under the Senate bill&hellip; The Senate bill unveiled on Thursday would <strong>raise taxes on millions of middle-class families<\/strong>, according to a preliminary New York Times analysis. <strong>The plan would also disproportionately benefit high earners and corporations<\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/tax-reform-affordable-care-act-mandate_us_5a0b903be4b00a6eece51a0e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009\">Huffington Post<\/a>: &ldquo;As for the millions without insurance, they would be newly exposed to crippling medical bills. By and large, they would be <strong>lower- and middle-income people &#8213; who almost certainly would also benefit the least from the broader tax cuts Republicans have in mind<\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest edition of the Senate Republican tax plan released late last night would raise health care insurance premiums on middle-class families, while also raising their taxes, and would leave millions more without health insurance &ndash; all in the interest of making tax cuts for wealthy corporations permanent. 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