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Momentum Grows For Graham-Cassidy Obamacare Repeal Bill
Hidden Americans ^ | 09/19/2017 | Richard Saunders

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.


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: grahamcassidy; obamacare; repealandreplace; vppence
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1 posted on 09/19/2017 11:59:31 AM PDT by nodwam
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To: nodwam

As long as it gets rid of the mandates.


2 posted on 09/19/2017 12:01:13 PM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: robroys woman

Oh the huge mandates!


3 posted on 09/19/2017 12:04:15 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: robroys woman

Obama just loved those mandates!

Especially with Reggie Love!..................


4 posted on 09/19/2017 12:05:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: nodwam

Yea, the momentum is growing so quickly about a dozen governors have already come out against it.


5 posted on 09/19/2017 12:05:38 PM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: cyclotic

Most of those governors are Dems and Kasich, but I repeat myself.


6 posted on 09/19/2017 12:07:03 PM PDT by mrs9x
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To: nodwam

Let’s see, Leslie probably has the RINO’s behind it.


7 posted on 09/19/2017 12:07:33 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: nodwam

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.


8 posted on 09/19/2017 12:08:39 PM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: nodwam

Jeb Bush?

Did he check with Mommy and Daddy first?


9 posted on 09/19/2017 12:09:20 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ClearCase_guy

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.


10 posted on 09/19/2017 12:09:25 PM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: nodwam

,,,,,, don’t forget ,, 0bamacare is loaded with taxes ,, what about those ???


11 posted on 09/19/2017 12:09:57 PM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: There is nothing democratic about the democrat party :-()
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To: nodwam

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


12 posted on 09/19/2017 12:10:26 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: mrs9x

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.


13 posted on 09/19/2017 12:10:55 PM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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.
14 posted on 09/19/2017 12:21:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: nodwam

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.


15 posted on 09/19/2017 12:27:21 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: nodwam

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.


16 posted on 09/19/2017 12:33:02 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: 1Old Pro

Susan Collins has already said she won’t support it.


17 posted on 09/19/2017 12:35:35 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Oh the huge mandates!”

LOL! Nice play.


18 posted on 09/19/2017 12:38:26 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: nodwam

Gotta get those subsidies for the insurance companies authorized!
. Everything else is Kabuki.


19 posted on 09/19/2017 12:40:58 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: PGR88

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.


20 posted on 09/19/2017 12:55:39 PM PDT by Aria
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