{"id":6070,"date":"2017-03-07T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T13:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6070"},"modified":"2017-03-07T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T13:53:07","slug":"house-gop-health-bill-jettisons-insurance-mandate-much-of-medicaid-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6070","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Health Bill Jettisons Insurance Mandate, Much Of Medicaid Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Mary Agnes Carey and Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans unveiled their much anticipated health law replacement plan Monday, slashing the law\u2019s Medicaid expansion and scrapping the requirement that individuals purchase coverage or pay a fine. But they opted to continue providing tax credits to encourage consumers to purchase coverage, although they would configure the program much differently than the current law. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/house-gop-health-bill-jettisons-insurance-mandate-much-of-medicaid-expansion\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=44001067&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_ce-W3Jfkh4OckNIK8lTrGV83RaoJ3gzqu2BcNP_W7uL9Jz5BBwPePGTmk4mls6kTBl-7WdLkoCu4jW9_A9ZPgqYEZ0A&amp;_hsmi=44001067\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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