{"id":10966,"date":"2017-04-20T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/04\/20\/new-gop-health-proposal-could-ditch-protections-for-people-who-are-sick\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T17:21:00","slug":"new-gop-health-proposal-could-ditch-protections-for-people-who-are-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/new-gop-health-proposal-could-ditch-protections-for-people-who-are-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"New GOP Health Proposal Could Ditch Protections For People Who Are Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-N.J., has drawn up a proposed amendment to the GOP health care bill, hoping to attract enough support to pass the House.<\/p>\n

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House Republicans are mulling over new changes to their health care proposal, hoping to wrangle enough votes to pass a bill that would allow them to keep their campaign pledge to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

The latest proposal<\/a> allows states to make changes to the ACA’s rules governing health insurance policies and markets, in an effort to allow some states to offer stripped-down policies with lower premiums.<\/p>\n

The proposal represents a deal between Rep. Tom MacArthur<\/a>, R-N.J., who is the head of the moderate Tuesday Group, and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., who leads the far-right Freedom Caucus. The two groups could not agree<\/a> on details of an earlier health care plan championed by House Speaker Paul Ryan, known as the American Health Care Act.<\/a><\/p>\n

The new proposal, which was reported by Politico<\/a> and The Huffington Post, is an amendment to that bill. It consists of a summary and bullet points rather than legislative language.<\/p>\n

Without the full language it’s unclear whether the plan could bring in enough votes to pass, says a senior House Republican aide.<\/p>\n