'How is any Republican in California and New York going to vote for Trumpcare?'
You know how Speaker Paul Ryan and fellow Republicans keep talking about the Zombie Trumpcare as giving more power to the states to determine how they want health care to work? Like everything else they say about the plan, that's bullshit. One of their own members wants you do know that.
Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY) went on All In with Chris Hayes Thursday evening to discuss his ongoing opposition to Trumpcare and Zombie Trumpcare for a whole host of reasons, including how badly it would hit the middle class and lower-income people and people with pre-existing conditions. But then he highlighted another issue, one that has been kind of hidden under all the other awfulness that is Trumpcare.
Residents of New York and California, where the state requires all insurance policies to include abortion coverage, wouldn't get the tax credits for their insurance coverage. At all.
Donovan: Even before that, that's a strong reason for my no vote. But in addition, you know, the tax credits that were supposed to help families who are paying $20,000 in insurance premiums and have $6,000 deductibles and astronomical co-payments, you know, we're offering tax credits to those people to help them buy insurance. Those tax credits are not available to the people in new York. It's illegal to use tax credits to support policies that will provide abortion procedures, and in New York we require every insurance company to provide abortion procedures. So the help that we were going to give those hard-working people who don't get their insurance from their employer or who don't qualify for government assistance, who have to buy insurance themselves, we weren't providing them the relief that they deserve.
Hayes: Wait a second. I don't think I figured this out policy-wise before. So what you're saying is there's actually this kind of train crash for blue states that—or Democratic states or pro-choice states that have these requirements for abortion coverage, and the current tax to the Republican bill in terms of the applicability of the subsidies.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/28/1657178/--How-is-any-Republican-in-California-and-New-York-going-to-vote-for-Trumpcare
