Chris0nllyn
Well-Known Member
Dubbed the "Graham-Cassidy Bill" would essentially repeal the individual mandate and replace that with state-run block grants. Not clear if it has enough momentum to pass just yet.
The Senate has until Sept. 30 to get their #### together. After that, the procedure that allows them to pass any health care bill with a majority goes away. Less than 2 weeks to "repeal and replace".
Some of the typical names are holding out (Collins, Murkowski) due to concerns about revamping Medicare to block grants. Others say that if this new bill doesn't defund Planned Parenthood and prevent subsidies from covering abortions, they won't vote yes. Others have concern that repealing Obamacare would actually lead to Democratic states developing a single-payer system with the grant money because this repeal would give states more flexibility to do what they want with the money. (Sorta funny repealing Obamacare would lead to single-payer)
McCain said he wants this to go through the Senate like all other bills. Debate, amendments, etc. but given they have less than 2 weeks, who knows how that'll work.
The CBO says they won't be able to score it until next months.
The only sensible Republican that ran for President last election, Rand Paul, had an opinion piece on Fox News:
The Senate has until Sept. 30 to get their #### together. After that, the procedure that allows them to pass any health care bill with a majority goes away. Less than 2 weeks to "repeal and replace".
Some of the typical names are holding out (Collins, Murkowski) due to concerns about revamping Medicare to block grants. Others say that if this new bill doesn't defund Planned Parenthood and prevent subsidies from covering abortions, they won't vote yes. Others have concern that repealing Obamacare would actually lead to Democratic states developing a single-payer system with the grant money because this repeal would give states more flexibility to do what they want with the money. (Sorta funny repealing Obamacare would lead to single-payer)
McCain said he wants this to go through the Senate like all other bills. Debate, amendments, etc. but given they have less than 2 weeks, who knows how that'll work.
The CBO says they won't be able to score it until next months.
The only sensible Republican that ran for President last election, Rand Paul, had an opinion piece on Fox News:
In all ways, this bill is also ObamaCare Lite. In no way is it repeal the way we promised. I will oppose this bill as I did the other fake repeal bills, and I urge those who want repeal to do so, as well.
Graham/Cassidy doesn’t repeal a single ObamaCare insurance regulation. All of the Title 1 rules, the Essential Health Benefit rules, all of them - they’re still in place here.
This bill is also set to spend us further into debt. Even the bill’s authors and proponents, using what I’m sure are rosy numbers, admit that their ObamaCare Lite bill will spend 90 percent of what we currently spend on ObamaCare. Other estimates are closer to 95 percent. Either way, did anyone go out to vote so we could repeal only 5 or 10 percent of ObamaCare? I didn’t.
Graham/Cassidy won’t fix our health care problems, and it will become a permanent drain on the treasury - one that is already $20 trillion in debt, with a $700 billion deficit next year.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017...-does-not-repeal-obamacare-and-oppose-it.htmlGraham/Cassidy keeps a trillion dollars in taxes and spending and redistributes it. And, somehow, people are looking to call this “federalism.” I wish it were, but that’s just not the case.
Their sales pitch is, “If you like your ObamaCare, you can keep it.” That’s nice, but I don’t like it, I don’t want to keep it, and I don’t want to keep paying for it. So how about we all keep our word and get rid of it?
To my colleagues, I say, “No thanks.” This bill is no better than the last attempt and should receive no more support. It should not pass. I’ll vote no, and I’ll fight to stop the newest ObamaCare Lite plan.