ConservaCare: Congressional Republicans have released the draft of an Obamacare replacement bill that replaces the requirement to have insurance with tax credits and incentives for people to buy health insurance.

The key difference is that they propose to replace the requirement that everyone must have insurance with the notion that everyone will have access to health insurance.

The result may be a dramatic drop in the number of people who obtained insurance under Obamacare.

Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said this morning low-income Americans may have to make financial choices to keep their insurance. “Americans have choices,” Chaffetz said. “And they’ve got to make a choice. And so maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own health care. They’ve got to make those decisions themselves.”

The bill as drafted keeps the popular Obamacare rules that say people with pre-existing conditions must be able to buy insurance and families can keep their children on their policy until age 26.

Already there’s infighting among Republicans, some of whom say the bill doesn’t kill enough of Obamacare’s provisions, and others who say it may endanger people who get their health insurance through expanded Medicaid. About 11 million Americans got their health insurance through expanded Medicare, and Republican leaders want to repeal it.

 Travel Ban 2.0: President Trump issued a re-written travel ban targeting citizens of six predominantly Muslim countries. Iraq, which was on the original list of seven countries in an order blocked by federal judges, has been left off the new list.

The new order is designed to withstand legal challenges. It phases into effect over two weeks to avoid a repeat of travel chaos, and eliminates the previous order’s exception for religious minorities that made it look as if Muslims were targeted for exclusion from the US.

Citizens of Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and Libya now face a 90-day suspension of visa approvals. People who hold valid visas will be allowed into the US. Iraq was removed from the list because it is a military ally of the US and excluding Iraqis was a political insult that endangered relations.

The Russia House: Nearly two thirds of Americans want a special prosecutor appointed to investigate connections between the Trump campaign circle and Russia, according to a new CNN poll. Sixty-five percent of those polled want a special prosecutor, while only 32 percent said they are willing to let the Senate and House Intelligence Committees handle the investigations.

The polling pretty much splits on party lines. Seventy-one percent of Democrats saying they are “very concerned” about Trump connections to Russia while 54 percent of Republicans say they have no concerns “at all.”

The Obit Page: Robert Osborne, the film historian who was the host of Turner Classic Movies since 1994, died yesterday at age 84. Osborne knew everything about the movies and packed his introductions and conversations with fascinating details.

The Supremes: The Court declined to hear a case about transgender rights and public bathroom use because the Trump administration reversed the Obama position on the issue. A lower court had upheld the right of a transgender Virginia boy, Gavin Grimm, to use the bathroom corresponding to his sexual identity.

>The justices also ruled 5-3 that jury deliberations do not have to remain secret if there’s evidence of racial bias in the discussions. The decision stems from a case in which a man was convicted of three misdemeanors after a juror argued that, “I think he did it because he’s Mexican.”

Tap, Tap: President Trump’s operatives are defending his claim that his phones were tapped on the Orders of President Obama. Spokesman Sean Spicer said, “There’s no question that something happened. The question is it, is it surveillance, is it a wiretap or whatever?”

The Trump camp is employing the circular logic that because the story of Trump’s claim has been reported by so many outlets, there must be something to it. “There has been enough reporting that strongly suggests something occurred,” Spicer said. He did not say that every story by reputable news outlets is careful to point out that there’s no proof of Trump’s claim.

Asked on Fox News how the president was informed of the alleged wiretap, Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway said “Let me answer that globally. He’s the president of the United States. He has information and intelligence the rest of us do not. And that’s how it should be for presidents.”

Globally. Really.

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