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Republicans Call for State Pools to Replace Obamacare Safeguards for Sickest Insureds

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan called on Wednesday for an end to Obamacare’s financial protections for people with serious medical conditions, saying these consumers should be placed in state high-risk pools. In election-year remarks that could shed light …

House Republicans Plan Vote on Estate Tax Repeal

The House Ways and Means Committee plans to vote this week on a bill to repeal the U.S. estate tax, said Doug Andres, a spokesman for committee chairman Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican. The move to repeal the estate tax …

3 GOP Senators’ OpEd: Keep Obamacare Subsidies Temporarily

Senior Republican senators said Sunday that Congress would extend Obamacare health insurance subsidies for a “transitional period” should the Supreme Court rule that they aren’t allowed in at least 34 states. Meanwhile, Republicans would design an alternative policy for those …

House Plan Would Cut Crop Insurance Cost

U.S. farm and crop insurance subsidies would be cut by $30 billion over 10 years under a proposal made by the House of Representatives Budget Committee chairman on Tuesday, far larger reductions than agricultural-state lawmakers suggested. Budget chairman Paul Ryan …

Republican Ryan Proposes Individual Health Insurance Tax Credit

Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, an outspoken opponent of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform, proposed a plan Tuesday that could effectively dismantle the way most Americans get health insurance by reducing incentives to join employer-sponsored plans. In a speech at Stanford …