{"id":22354,"date":"2015-02-05T20:27:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22354"},"modified":"2015-02-05T20:27:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:27:39","slug":"new-gop-obamacare-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22354\/new-gop-obamacare-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"New GOP ObamaCare Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/interactive\/2015\/02\/04\/obamacare-replacement-plan\/ \" target=\"_blank\">newest Republican alternative to ObamaCare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the plan\u2019s authors \u2013 Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, plus Senators Richard Burr of North Carolina and Orrin Hatch of Utah \u2013 the plan would rein in Medicaid\u2019s burgeoning costs by turning it into a block grant.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not all.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, the Patient CARE Act would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enact medical malpractice reforms to reduce frivolous lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Require basic price transparency to inform and empower patients<\/li>\n<li>Cap the exclusion of an employee\u2019s employer-provided health coverage<\/li>\n<li>Create a targeted tax credit to help buy health care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Billed as a \u201cBicameral Republican Blueprint,\u201d this proposal has support from three powerful members of the GOP in Congress. Once they produce more details, then we\u2019ll see how many votes they can muster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at the newest Republican alternative to ObamaCare. According to the plan\u2019s authors \u2013 Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, plus Senators Richard Burr of North Carolina and Orrin Hatch of Utah \u2013 the plan would rein in Medicaid\u2019s burgeoning costs by turning it into a block grant. That\u2019s not all. Among other things, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,2152,3308,35,1426,1001,665],"class_list":["post-22354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-fred-upton","tag-health","tag-obamacare","tag-orrin-hatch","tag-repeal","tag-richard-burr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22358,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions\/22358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}