The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s (TPPF) Center for Tenth Amendment Action Director Chip Roy issued the following statement on potentially millions of veterans being made ineligible for tax credits under the American Healthcare Act. Technical corrections made to the bill late Monday changed eligibility criteria and now prevents any veterans from receiving the new tax credit. Previously, veterans were eligible as long as they were not already enrolled in a VA plan, Medicare, or other entity. Due to a technical correction using an IRS definition, millions of veterans will not be eligible for the new refundable tax credit.
| “As Congress continues to push a healthcare bill that fails to repeal Obamacare, drive down costs, and empower patients, it appears that technical corrections to the bill would make potentially millions of veterans ineligible for the new refundable tax credit. A refundable tax credit is bad policy on its own merits, but this oversight is further evidence that Congress is repeating the same mistakes of the past—rushing through a Washington-centered healthcare bill that fails to live up to promises made to the American people.
"Congress should change course immediately and fully repeal Obamacare—its taxes, its subsidies, its flawed and costly Medicaid expansion, and all the insurance regulations and mandates driving up premiums. The rushed process that led to the passage of Obamacare led to unintended consequences for the American people. Congress should not repeat those same mistakes.” |
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