For Republicans, healthcare policy has nothing to do with care, it's about tax policy and specifically about how to give the wealthy the most and the biggest tax breaks. So it's not at all surprising that that's just what Trumpcare does.
House Republicans’ Obamacare replacement plan would cut taxes on the wealthy by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Their long-awaited proposal, unveiled Monday evening, would among other things kill a 3.8 percent investment tax on the well-to-do that Democrats had used to help finance the health care law, as well as a 0.9 percent surcharge on wages above $250,000.
The Tax Policy Center says that's about $195,000 annually for the top 0.1 percent of earners. By the way, the various tax repeals in the repeal would cost $500 billion in lost revenue in the next ten years, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimates. So there's that. You'd think that would be enough to win the Koch brothers and the Freedom Caucus and the Heritage Foundation and all of them over, wouldn't you? I mean, tax cuts! That's everything.
Except it's not. Because some people will still get tax breaks to help them get insurance—the people who should be choosing health care instead of iPhones, that is. Those people get help, too, so it's "welfare."