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Koch groups slam GOP health care replacement plan as 'Obamacare 2.0'

• http://www.usatoday.com, Fredreka Schouten

"As the bill stands today, it is Obamacare 2.0," the leaders of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the main funding arm of the Koch network, said in a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and other key committee chairmen. "We cannot support it."

The Kochs' network of donors have plowed big sums — $42 million on TV ads during the 2016 election alone — to help Republicans in Congress retain their majority and push for the defeat of President Obama's signature health-care law. The network also has dispatched thousands of activists to rallies and marches to oppose the law since it was first debated in Congress in 2009.

Their opposition to the House Republican bill comes as other conservative outside groups, including Heritage Action and Club for Growth, slammed the measure — underscoring the bitter debate that lies ahead as congressional Republicans and President Trump look to unravel the sweeping health-care law.


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