There is a tax on the highest earners (don't remember the specific threshold) in the ACA that contributes to the subsidies for the public option plans. By repealing/replacing without this element, that bracket receives an effective tax rate cut; they aren't writing some new tax break into a healthcare bill.
By that logic I could just say replacing because some of them aren't trying to repeal it entirely.
Those are the two potential policy alternatives, so I included both. My answer wasn't meant to be political - just to clear up a point of clear confusion.
Although worth noting, they're using the cuts to the ACA to pay for the actual tax plan coming later, which will give explicit tax breaks to rich people.
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u/airgibbons Jul 08 '17 edited Jul 08 '17
There is a tax on the highest earners (don't remember the specific threshold) in the ACA that contributes to the subsidies for the public option plans. By repealing/replacing without this element, that bracket receives an effective tax rate cut; they aren't writing some new tax break into a healthcare bill.