The Republican Study Committee announced it finally had come up with a replacement for Obamacare. Ed Kilgore:

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Through carefully cultivated sources in my own cerebellum, I’m able to reveal the mysterious House conservative health care plan:

High-risk pools, HSAs, tax credits, interstate insurance sales, “tort reform,” “entitlement reform.”

Pretty exciting, eh? Encourage bad and expensive insurance for the people who actually need it, probably while easing Medicare into a private insurance system and Medicaid towards the dustbin of history.

Kevin Drum finds the actual plan, and checks to see how well Ed called it:

OK, smartypants, let’s just compare that to reality. Here’s the actual plan:

• Spurs competition to lower health care costs by allowing Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines….
• Reforms medical malpractice laws….
• Provides tax reform that allows families and individuals to deduct health care costs….
• Expands access to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)….
• Safeguards individuals with pre-existing conditions … by bolstering state-based high risk pools….
• Protects the unborn by ensuring no federal funding of abortions.

Hah! You didn’t mention that last one, Ed. What makes this plan unique and exciting is its ban on federal funding for abortion. Boo-yah!

Some days the snark writes itself. Or, at least other people write it.