[Magdalen] Trumpcare question...

[Jay Weigel]

That doesn't make it any better. Millions of people will still be thrown
off health care will the scaleback of Medicaid. I'm worried about my ASD
son.

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Mike. I think I get it, but I'm a bear of very little brain when
> it comes to this stuff!
> I didn't realize they'd raised taxes to finance the ACA--so this will
> actually just put them back where they were before. No tax money is being
> "freed up," in other words...
>
> > On Jun 23, 2017, at 10:54 AM, Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Why is it a given that the money that will supposedly be saved by this
> >> plan will automatically go to tax cuts for the wealthy?
> >
> >
> > Grace -
> >
> > The "Obama" health care legislation included provisions to raise certain
> > taxes, the sole purpose of which was to keep the net cost of the act
> below
> > a pre-advertised number.  It didn't hurt that the specific taxes were
> aimed
> > at upper income households but from a simple fiscal standpoint, it didn't
> > matter.  Excise taxes on liquor would have served the same purpose.
> >
> > It won't happen but the entire structure of Obamacare could be repealed
> but
> > the tax increases associated with it left in place.   They are not really
> > connected.
> >
> > Mike M
>