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WASHINGTON — If we've learned anything from the health care debate
over the last several months, it's that the GOP's Obamacare repeal
efforts never die — like (take your pick) a Bruce Willis action hero or a
horror villain. And ahead of the Senate’s September 30 reconciliation
deadline, Republicans appear to be giving Obamacare repeal one last try
with Graham-Cassidy.
The problem with this last (?) repeal push:
It’s unclear if it will win over the same GOP senators who thwarted the
previous Obamacare repeal effort — Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Lisa
Murkowski, R-Alaska; and John McCain, R-Ariz. Additionally, it’s picked
up what seems to be this hard “no” — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. — which means
that Republicans have to win over TWO of these FOUR senators to pass
the legislation via reconciliation. That won’t be easy.
NBC’s Benjy Sarlin breaks down
what’s in Graham-Cassidy: “It would do away with Obamacare’s Medicaid
expansion, subsidies for private insurance, eliminate the requirement
that Americans have insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and
payments to insurers to reduce out-of-pocket costs. In their place, it
would offer states a new block grant they could use to spend on health
care mostly as they saw fit. But the block grant would include less
total federal spending, meaning states would struggle to cover the same
number of people.”
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Source: NBC News
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