Here is a big shocker that the Wisconsin House members voted along party lines. In a house vote that saw a 217-213 vote of the repeal of Obamacare, the 5 republican Congressmen voted for the repeal while the 3 democratic Congressmen voted to keep Obamacare. Congressman Kind said, "Never before in our nation's history has a Congress and Administration offered a health care reform bill that instead of lowering the uninsured rate actually increases the number of uninsured individuals by 24 million people”. The bill ends the tax penalties that the affordable care act law imposed on people who didn't buy health insurance and on larger employers who don't offer coverage, this legislation also replaces Obama's subsidies for people buying individual policies with tax credits. A couple of things that It retains from Obamacare is the requirement that family policies cover grown children up to age 26 as well as varying premiums based on gender.
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