Posted on 09/06/2017 2:19:55 PM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said Wednesday that he would support a plan to repeal Obamacare led by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA).
”Yes. You think I wouldn’t be?” McCain told reporters Wednesday, asked if he would support the legislation, the Hill reported.
Arizona’s senior senator, whose close friendship with Graham is well known, affirmed that he thought the bill, in The Hill’s words, “has legs before Sept. 30.”
The Graham-Cassidy legislation would essentially dismantle much of Obamacare’s federal infrastructure, turning over federal dollars to the states to do with what they wish, though that flexibility at the state level would come at a sharp cost. Judith Solomon, vice president for health policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, told Politico on August 1 that she estimated it would result in 16 percent less federal spending in 2020 versus the Obamacare status quo’s spending on Medicaid expansion and market subsidies. McCain was one of three Republican votes against Senate
Republicans’ Obamacare repeal effort in late July. Notably, he objected as much to the process by which the legislation had arrived in the Senate for a vote as to the content of the effort itself. McCain is a sometimes loud proponent of so-called “regular order.”
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This is the bill that Rick Santorum, Scott Walker and the Freedom Caucus have been working on. If momentum can build on this, it can get through the Senate.
Does it eliminate the mandates?
Why wasn’t this bill brought up originally?!
This article says that it does repeal the mandates.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/6/16263316/cassidy-graham-mccain-obamacare-repeal
“But Cassidy-Graham also ends the two policies that are meant to bring healthy people into the marketplace: the mandate to purchase coverage and the tax subsidies to make coverage affordable.”
Thank you. I did click on that article, but I despaired of ever finding the answer. They buried it deep in the details. They must not understand how much the mandates are hated.
Will the Freedom Cacus get on board? If so, there is a chance. If they’re not on board, neither am I.
................ditto except I would add “TRUMP” too!
But, I imagine that if the FC is for it so would Trump be.
Want to see McLame get pissed off? Watch Trump tweet tonight that he loves the bill. :>)
Good question to ask Graham after 7 years of bitchin.
They’d better have something they can vote through......or Trump will rub their noses in it.
It doesn't matter. Trump ordered the IRS not to enforce the mandates.
I wish McCain would throw an embolism.
Thank you AW. That is helpful information.
perhaps McShame only voted against repeal in order to express his anger that DJT and not McShame is President
maybe he really WILL vote for repeal, after all
i doubt he has any real principles anyway, so...?
Pass it.
He needs to get rid of Obamacare this needs to be top priority. If McCain can’t do it he needs to resign and let the republican Arizona governor appoint an honest republican in his place.
It sure would be a wonderful opportunity to replace McShame!
and maybe we can find a good replacement for that other flaky guy there, too?
It'll matter in 2020 if a Democrat President manages to get elected. The mandates must be repealed.
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