House Republicans Reveal Plan for Alternative to ACA – On June 22, 2016, House Republicans released a health plan in the form of a 37-page white paper outlining a series of proposals that would replace a repealed Affordable Care Act.  Among other things, House Republicans would gradually increase the eligibility age for Medicare, which is currently 65, along with the eligibility age for full Social Security benefits, eventually reaching 67.  In addition, the requirement that most Americans carry health insurance would be eliminated, and flat tax credits would be offered to each person or family in the individual insurance market regardless of income or the premium for a particular insurance policy.  House Republicans would also roll back ACA’s expansion of Medicaid and provide to each state a fixed sum for each beneficiary or a lump sum for all of a state’s Medicaid program.  No details were included on how House Republicans would propose to pay for the changes included in the plan.