The First Victims of Repealing Obamacare Will Be the Sick and the Poor

It has been widely noted that Donald Trump’s choice of Tom Price, the Republican congressman from Georgia, to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services makes a full-blown repeal of the Affordable Care Act more likely. Price, an orthopedic surgeon, isn’t just an armchair critic of Obamacare. In 2009, he put forward the Empowering Patients First Act, which was then intended as an alternative to the Affordable Care Act. It has since evolved into a replacement for it. In a very useful piece on Price’s proposal, which he reintroduced in 2011, 2013, and 2015, Vox’s Sarah Kliff explains how Price’s bill goes beyond other Republican repeal plans, including the one endorsed by Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House.

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