Donald Trump’s GOP has shifted tactics on Obamacare—from repeal to defunding subsidies—sparking fierce divides. Benjamin Guggenheim, Robert King & Meredith Lee Hill reveal how Paragon Health Institute pushes ending enhanced ACA tax credits, igniting tension between hardline and moderate Republicans. Intrigued? Dive deeper: https://www.alternet.org/obamacare-blase-congress/ #Trump #Obamacare #ACA #BrianBlase #ParagonHealthInstitute #Republicans #Congress #Healthcare #Politico #Medicaid #USelections2025
'Uncomfortable': GOP lawmakers fear right-wing think tank will doom them in midterms

During Donald Trump's first presidency, he aggressively pushed for the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare, to be repealed and replaced. But after a replacement bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives in late 2017, it failed in the U.S. Senate when three Republicans — Sen. Lisa Mu...

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Rep. #ChipRoy of #Texas led the letter and promoted it publicly but digital metadata embedded in a PDF copy circulated inside the House and obtained by @politico.com lists the author as #BrianBlase, president of #ParagonHealthInstitute. www.politico.com/live-updates...

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With Trump NIH in crosshairs
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/nx-s1-5183014/trump-election-2024-nih-rfk

* National Institutes of Health among top targets for restructuring
* Joel Zinberg: senior fellow at Competitive Enterprise Institute
* director of Public Health & American Wellbeing Initiative at Paragon Health Institute
* conservative think tanks

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/872508858

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#ThinkTanks #CompetitiveEnterpriseInstitute #CEI #ParagonHealthInstitute
#CharlesKoch #billionaires #libertarianism
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