But it leaves some significant parts of the Affordable Care Act intact and has some provisions that change health policy that aren’t really about the 2010 law. PhotoThe bill, for example, eventually eliminates the expansion of Medicaid that was a major part of the Affordable Care Act. Tax subsidies to help the middle class pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act are being reduced, not eliminated. Sure enough, the health insurance industry, hospital and doctors’ groups, and other major interests oppose the Republican plan. And the nation will, or will not, get to experience a very different philosophy of government’s role in health care.

Source: New York Times June 23, 2017 21:56 UTC