Obamacare’s Neglect of the Middle Class
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The Democrat’s attempts to discredit Republicans’ efforts to reform Obamacare misunderstand these reform efforts and perhaps Obamacare itself, argues Jeffrey Anderson, executive director of the 2017 project.
The Burr-Hatch-Upton proposal would correct the glaring holes in Obamacare’s tax credit distribution. Under Obamacare young and middle-class Americans receive no subsidies or tax credits through Obamacare. For example, a 31-year-old woman in Fairfax County, Virginia, with no children and an income of $33,500 would receive no subsidy to purchase health insurance. Glaring gaps in coverage occur because Obamacare does not provide a blanket subsidy to anyone making up to 400% of the federal poverty rate. Instead, the coverage depends on age, income, and location, leaving many average Americans with no help in getting increasingly expensive coverage.
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