Powerful conservative groups line up against House GOP health plan

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Powerful conservative groups line up against House GOP health plan

Heritage calls it 'bad policy.' FreedomWorks pans it as 'Obamacare-lite.' And the Club for Growth called it a 'warmed-over substitute for government-run health care.'

By Louis Nelson

03/07/17 09:06 AM EST

Updated 03/07/17 03:58 PM EST


With the ink barely dry on the legislation, powerful conservative groups started lining up against House Republicans’ plan to replace Obamacare, with Club for Growth saying it would aggressively push for GOP lawmakers to vote against it.

With little early defense from the White House, the groups issued sharply worded statements against the House GOP replacement bill, which would offer less generous insurance tax credits and phase out the law’s Medicaid expansion while striking its unpopular individual mandate penalty.

The Heritage Foundation’s advocacy arm called it “bad policy.” FreedomWorks panned it as “Obamacare-lite.” And the Club for Growth called it a “warmed-over substitute for government-run health care.”

Club for Growth, which is known for keeping scorecards gauging how conservative Republicans are, said it would "key vote" the bill. It dubbed it “RyanCare.” FreedomWorks, meanwhile, plans to launch a six-figure campaign against the legislation.

As the conservative backlash piled up, little help emerged from the White House, beyond a flurry of tweets from President Donald Trump and a letter from Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price blessing the bill.

During the afternoon, however, Price offered less than a full-throated endorsement, calling the bill a “work in progress.”

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. It doesnt kill enough Obama voters for these groups.

[SummerSnow]

2. Not even 24 hours and their drive-by health bill is already crappy

[drm604]

3. Now that they have real power

they have no clue what to do with it.