That’s why tax-focused supporters of the American Health Care Act should be wary: It is not only flawed as a health care bill.<br />The House Health Care Disaster Is Really About Taxes -<br />By PETER SUDERMANMAY 6, 2017<br />I have been a critic of Obamacare since it became law, but the Republican alternative is worse in nearly every way.<br />Even for an opponent of Obamacare, it is difficult to understand why House Republicans chose this path to revamping the nation’s health care system.<br />That is where the American Health Care Act comes in: It would eliminate roughly<br />$1 trillion in taxes used to pay for the additional spending in Obamacare.<br />Those options would require tax increases of a size<br />that might otherwise make even many Democrats think twice — and would make the higher taxes included in Obamacare seem paltry by comparison.<br />The American Health Care Act, which was narrowly passed in the House last week, would worsen Obamacare’s problems rather than fix them.<br />Republicans planned to use the reconciliation process to go it alone on both health care and tax reform.<br />Because it cuts taxes — especially for the top 20 percent of earners —<br />and so sets up the broader tax reform legislation Republicans hope to pass later in the year.<br />Why then did House Republicans push so hard to pass this health care bill?
