Senate healthcare bill would reverse the wealth transfer portion of Obamacare

NY Times:

Shifting Dollars From Poor to Rich Is a Key Part of the Senate Health Bill

The bill is aligned with long-held Republican values, jettisoning Obamacare taxes. But it would also reduce funding for the care of low-income Americans.
This story appears to be written to suggest that allowing some people to keep their own money is a wealth transfer when it is just the opposite.

What Obamacare did was impose new burdens on small business and on people in the individual market whose rates skyrocketed in order to help pay for those who were not paying for their own healthcare insurance.

It was a very unfair system that attacked mainly middle-class people who did not have employer-provided healthcare insurance.

The media and the Democrats continue to show a lack of empathy for those seriously harmed by Obamacare.

The Washington Post has another example of this false narrative:
Senate Republicans ready themselves for a massive theft from the poor
In fact, Obamacare was making people in the individual market poor because Democrats were making them pay for crap they did not want or need so they could then give free healthcare to Democrat voters.

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