Lindsey Graham: Breitbart, Steve Bannon Critical to Passing Federalism-Focused Obamacare Repeal

Breitbart ^ | September 19, 2017 | Sean Moran

[be-baw]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Air Force Two on Tuesday that Breitbart News and former White House Chief Strategist and present Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon have been critical to passing a state-based Obamacare repeal bill.

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Breitbart News has been at the forefront of the new Obamacare repeal legislation. Breitbart News first broke the story in an exclusive interview with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

[be-baw]

The article is effusive in praise of Breitbart being at the forefront of reporting often about the proposed bill, and particularly about who is supporting it.

[ForYourChildren]

In the article is says: “a new bill to repeal and replace Obamacare through block grants to the states.”

Hmmm, block grants of money to the states.

To control the states.

“proposal’s federalist approach to block grant health care to the states”

Maybe someone should read this on Federalism:

“If Graham-Cassidy is federalism, undercooked chicken is medium rare”

http://thefederalistparty.org/2017/09/19/graham-cassidy-federalism-undercooked-chicken-medium-rare/

[ForYourChildren]

On the thinnest layer of the surface of the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare replacement bill, one can make a case that this is an example of federalism. Once you peel back the first layer, it’s clear that this is an attempt to justify federal government overreach by slapping on the federalist stamp of approval.

http://thefederalistparty.org/2017/09/19/graham-cassidy-federalism-undercooked-chicken-medium-rare/

[ForYourChildren]

What about the “federalist” components? Block grants replace Medicaid expansion, so that’s federalism, right? States are given more power over waivers, so that’s federalism as well, right? Wrong and wrong.

[loveliberty2]

But lost in all this talk from Republicans, of whatever stripe, is the fact that the Constitution makes no allowance for such a program, does it?

Its wording is "promote" the general welfare--not "provide for" the general welfare.

Back then, common sense meanings were given to words and terms; plus, the founders wrote at length about the meanings. Anyone in either Party paying attention?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Real federalism doesn't involve the federal government confiscating revenues from the states to begin with, and then redistributing them back as they see fit.

States are going to become nothing more than wards, jurisdiction areas of the federal government, in terms of census and population and such. Their sovereignty has already been eroded and this bill is simply the knock-out punch.

We are going to have single-payer, government-run health-care thanks to the Republican Party.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Don’t get the critical response here. Seems pretty obvious that the other alternatives are to either endlessly prop up Obamacare with federal subsidies or let it implode and be replaced with single payer.

[TChris]

Don’t get the critical response here. Seems pretty obvious that the other alternatives are to either endlessly prop up Obamacare with federal subsidies or let it implode and be replaced with single payer.

??? It IS single-payer. Why pretend one is any different than the other, really?

Socialized medicine is a BAD IDEA, and Republicans should be cutting its head off and setting fire to it at every opportunity!

Socialism is BAD. Whether sold by the slice or the whole loaf; whether it has an 'R' or a 'D' next to it.

BAD!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It will implode under Obamacare already. I would rather let Obamacare continue on its existing path than to entertain any other bill that merely slows it down a little, get Republicans blamed, and THEN Dems will push for Berniecare.

Graham-Cassidy is a Trojan Horse.

[Lurkinanloomin]

There is no repeal in this bill.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

No it isn’t. Single payer means no private or employer-provided health care allowed, everyone has to go on a government provided plan.

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[TChris]

No it isn’t. Single payer means no private or employer-provided health care allowed, everyone has to go on a government provided plan.

Leave obamacare untouched, or put some obamacare-by-another-name in its place, and what you describe is only a matter of time. The economics of it will make it so.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Depends I suppose on whether you think the bill will work to improve things. I think creating more power and flexibility at the state level, all other things being equal, will likely improve things.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You create it by Congress simply using their interstate commerce power to allow health insurers to sell across state lines. I would support a one-time block grant to the states for them to help those who lost their prior insurance before Obamacare, and letting them run Medicare and Medicaid (and merging it with their existing state health programs) but that's only on the condition that Obamacare is fully repealed.

Understand two things: (1) States are going to be complacent about the money and use it to pay off pension debt or transportation boondoggles. The block grants will simply get sucked into state bureaucracies. (2) The agitators on the Left will never be satisfied. If this passes, left-wing groups will file suit demanding that abortion and transgendered people get covered. Republicans will be tarred and feathered and lose Congress in 2018.

[Uri’el-2012]

Why can't Congress JUST repeal ?

Why must they pass obamacare with a NEW NAME

WHAT IS WRONG WITH FREEDOM & LIBERTY ?

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Obamacare will have been repealed. The essence of Obamacare is the individual and employer mandates. Requiring people to either buy or provide health insurance. Once you repeal that, you are back to at least a partially free market in health care. But with those mandates in place, you are on the road to single payer.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

The states have already been using the money that way, via back-filling. Right now, the states that keep Medicaid spending down are basically punished by receiving less from the federal government than those states that maximize Medicaid spending. Now, it will be the opposite, here’s your check, do what you want with it. Ultimately though, Obamacare will be repealed by the elimination of the individual and employer mandates.

[i_robot73]

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Don’t get the critical response here. Seems pretty obvious that the other alternatives are to either endlessly prop up Obamacare with federal subsidies or let it implode and be replaced with single payer.
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??? It IS single-payer. Why pretend one is any different than the other, really?

Socialized medicine is a BAD IDEA, and Republicans should be cutting its head off and setting fire to it at every opportunity!

Socialism is BAD. Whether sold by the slice or the whole loaf; whether it has an ‘R’ or a ‘D’ next to it.

BAD!
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“But, but...this is ‘better’ than *nothing*.”. The 1/2-a-loaf theory. Isn’t that the latest mantra of the mini-Fascists?

Never mind the party has NEVER circled-around for the other X%....unless it were the (D) for the coup-de-grace.

“We’ve got to look at the political REALITY”...never mind it’s illegal & unconstitutional to start. DO love the ‘federal subsidies’, as if Fedzilla had any $$ of its own, or AUTHORITY. Geez, it’s no wonder the Right can’t debate its way out of a wet-paper-bag. And, as if O’Care isn’t ‘single-payer’ as it is...*SMH*.

Appreciate the reminder (to some), but we’re FUBAR already. Just look how much of the debate language, many times here, use the co-opted Leftist dictionary.

[upchuck]

What happened to the REPEAL nobamacare promise?

linda, you are so full of it your eyes are brown.

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