Bobby Jindal, with an eye on 2016, to unveil plan to replace Obama health-care law

In his 26-page plan, Jindal lays out a lengthy critique of the health law — which he refers to throughout as “Obamacare” — and reiterates his belief that it needs to be entirely done away with. In its place, he sets forth a bevy of ideas that have run through conservative thought for years, in some cases renaming them and in other cases suggesting new variations on old themes.

“There is a void out there,” Jindal said in an interview. “Consider this plan open-source code for Republicans, who are welcome to cut and paste from it.”…

In his plan, which he will unveil Wednesday in Washington, Jindal proposes to create what he calls a “global grant program” — commonly known as block grants — to redesign Medicaid by giving states a fixed amount of money and freeing them from federal requirements to provide certain benefits.

In other staples of Republican thinking, Jindal proposes to eliminate the long-standing tax preference for employer-based insurance, allow insurance to be sold across state lines, and foster greater use of “health savings accounts,” including letting people use money in such accounts to pay their monthly insurance premiums.