{"id":22370,"date":"2015-02-06T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T21:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22370"},"modified":"2015-02-06T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T21:43:24","slug":"avik-roy-weighs-in-on-the-gop%e2%80%99s-patient-care-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22370\/avik-roy-weighs-in-on-the-gop%e2%80%99s-patient-care-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Avik Roy Weighs In on the GOP\u2019s Patient CARE Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avik Roy, a conservative health policy expert, penned a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theapothecary\/2015\/02\/05\/the-impressive-new-obamacare-replace-plan-from-republicans-burr-hatch-and-upton\/ \" target=\"_blank\">very helpful primer<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22354\/new-gop-obamacare-alternative\/ \" target=\"_blank\">latest GOP ObamaCare alternative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plan \u2013 the Patient CARE Act \u2013 is an updated version of similar reform concepts presented last year by three leading Republican members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Along with other intriguing ideas, the Patient CARE Act replaces ObamaCare\u2019s restrictive subsidy system \u2013 i.e. the money can only be spent on federally-approved insurance plans \u2013 with \u201ca means-tested tax credit that individuals could use to buy a far broader range of insurance products, or deposit the funds in a health savings account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a tremendous service to readers, Roy also summarizes how the Patient CARE Act compares to other conservative health reform alternatives: his <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/html\/mpr_17.htm#.VNU0AZ3F92Q\" target=\"_blank\">Transcending ObamaCare<\/a><\/em> and one championed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/2017project.org\/2012\/12\/the-replacement\/#.VNU0QZ3F92Q \" target=\"_blank\">2017 Project<\/a>. All three are serious proposals and deserve attention.<\/p>\n<p>More on these and other ObamaCare alternatives as they develop\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avik Roy, a conservative health policy expert, penned a very helpful primer on the latest GOP ObamaCare alternative. The plan \u2013 the Patient CARE Act \u2013 is an updated version of similar reform concepts presented last year by three leading Republican members of Congress. Along with other intriguing ideas, the Patient CARE Act replaces ObamaCare\u2019s [&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":[3507,84,3308,35,1447,1001,2249,813],"class_list":["post-22370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-avik-roy","tag-congress","tag-health","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-repeal","tag-subsidy","tag-tax-credit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22370","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=22370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22374,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22370\/revisions\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}