Is there a way to separate the Medicaid program from the rest of the Obamacare repeal? This seems to be the hangup, in that the Senators who have somehow reversed their vote, largely base it on the loss to the Medicaid programs within their states.
Eventually, of course the states are going to have to assume a much larger share of the Medicaid program themselves, or they shall have to scrutinize the programs as they exist in their state, and revise it accordingly.
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL).
Some states didn’t expand Medicaid, and I don’t think citizens of those states should have to pay for those that did. California alone enrolled millions in Medicaid.
Repeal all of Obamacare except Medicaid and you leave the vehicle by which Single Payer will swamp the nation.