Posted on 09/19/2017 11:59:31 AM PDT by nodwam
A new Obamacare repeal bill written by Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (La.) has until the end of the month to pass in the senate. The bill would block grant about $500 billion of federal spending to the states over 10 years to either repeal, repair or keep their ObamaCare programs.
The senators see the bill as a way to bridge the divide as they try to put together a bill that can muster 50 votes in the senate. The bill would repeal ObamaCare's individual and employer mandates, but keep insurer regulations protecting people with pre-existing conditions.
“If you believe repealing and replacing Obamacare is a good idea, this is your best and only chance to make it happen,” said Graham last week.
"I have got Alan Greenspan, Jeb Bush and Steve Bannon" behind this bill, Graham said. "If anyone can do better I'd like to meet them."
The White House has said that President Trump would sign the bill if it made it to his desk.
Currently Vice President Pence is working with the Senate to pass the Graham-Cassidy repeal bill.
.@POTUS asked me to return to DC for the Senate policy lunch w/ @LindseyGrahamSC to urge Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare. pic.twitter.com/ICST8FFQfY— Vice President Pence (@VP) September 19, 2017
Bottom line, this bill would be a significant step in repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Block granting and repealing the individual mandate is far superior to current Obamacare law.
As long as it gets rid of the mandates.
Oh the huge mandates!
Obama just loved those mandates!
Especially with Reggie Love!..................
Yea, the momentum is growing so quickly about a dozen governors have already come out against it.
Most of those governors are Dems and Kasich, but I repeat myself.
Let’s see, Leslie probably has the RINO’s behind it.
UNLESS THEY SPECIFICALLY REPEAL OBAMACARE ITSELF THE NEXT DUMMIECRAT CONGRESS WILL JUST UNDO ALL THIS.
UNLESS THIS STARTS WITH “THIS BILL REPEALS IN IT’S ENTIRETY THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT...” THEN IT IS WORTHLESS.
Jeb Bush?
Did he check with Mommy and Daddy first?
By opting out, I’ve saved well over $50,000 after tax dollars. And where I live, that is literally the price of a fairly nice house.
,,,,,, don’t forget ,, 0bamacare is loaded with taxes ,, what about those ???
The preexisting conditions “insurance” is pure welfare. And will bankrupt any insurance program, public or private. I’d personally be willing to help such people- at least thosec who didn’t have a chance to buy insurance - such as birth or maybe childhood- incurred conditions. But it logically can’t be part of an “insurance” program without destroying the insurance for everyone else. -———let the states to do it too— it’s not a proper federal activity to begin with
Mine did too. Hogan. That’s all I know.
I’m not a big Hogan fan. He’s never Trump and seems too squishy on some things, excellent on others.
Anything graham does is suspect to me though.
The bill would block grant about $500 billion of federal spending to the states over 10 years to either repeal, repair or keep their ObamaCare programs.IOW, the authors of the bill don't know what "repeal" means.
Nice buzzwords - does it destroy the centralized control system Obamacare setup with the creation of HHS?
If not this is just a disguised bailout of the insurance companies and the federal government remains the dicatator of my health.
in August my daughter away at college had to go to local emergency room for several stitches on her finger after a kitchen mishap.
The total bill? $3400
I personally hope that America’s health care system collapses. I don’t think it is reformable.
Susan Collins has already said she won’t support it.
“Oh the huge mandates!”
LOL! Nice play.
Gotta get those subsidies for the insurance companies authorized!
. Everything else is Kabuki.
That’s insane! But it must include the overall cost of taking care of those with no insurance. Just think, an indigent illegal in LA spent a year in the hospital getting his body rebuilt. A YEAR! Someone has to pay for that...and that someone would be all of us citizens who actually work and pay our own way.
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