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GOP Obamacare replacement would roll back Medicaid expansion

By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Published February 24, 2017 4:37pm ET
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GOP Obamacare replacement would roll back Medicaid expansion
Plan would be paid for by capping the tax break for employer-sponsored coverage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | J. Scott Applewhite

A leaked draft of a House bill to repeal and replace Obamacare fills in important new details of how Republicans would remake the healthcare law.

The discussion draft, which is dated Feb. 10, envisions phasing out big parts of the Affordable Care Act by 2020, including rolling back its Medicaid expansion and switching its insurance subsidies from income-based to age-based.

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