Posted on 09/20/2017 2:05:35 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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.
“proposals 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/
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, its 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/
What about the federalist components? Block grants replace Medicaid expansion, so thats federalism, right? States are given more power over waivers, so thats federalism as well, right? Wrong and wrong.
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?
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.
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!
Graham-Cassidy is a Trojan Horse.
There is no repeal in this bill.
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.
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.
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.
Why must they pass obamacare with a NEW NAME
WHAT IS WRONG WITH FREEDOM & LIBERTY ?
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.
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.
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Dont 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.
linda, you are so full of it your eyes are brown.
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