As you can tell from the name (Graham-Cassidy-Heller ACA Repeal) in the graphic above (posted by @ASlavitt), republicans are not giving up on repealing Obamacare. & they're hell-bent on passing some sort of #Trumpcare.
The Atlantic has an article detailing some of the "new" Trumpcare's same-old problematic aspects. For example; block grants for which states would have to apply, & would have to pay from their own funds to match (states & the Feds fighting over funds for healthcare: & the losers will be the working-class & the poor(as always)):
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/graham-cassidy-and-the-finance-kid/540027/
"It turns out, though, that the draft version of Graham-Cassidy only does one of those things. The bill would keep most of Obamacare’s revenues, save for the mandate tax penalties and medical-device taxes, but would allow no way for states that have expanded Medicaid to continue current insurance systems or cover the same amount of people that they do now. The legislation would take funds currently allocated to premium tax-credits, subsidies, basic health plans, and the ACA’s Medicaid expansion and convert some of those funds to a large pot of money from which states could apply for grants, for which they would have to pay some of their own funds to match.
Those grants, however, wouldn’t cover the same number of people. For starters, the total allocated money would be less than what’s spent on those programs today. Also, as Health Affairs reports, Graham-Cassidy likely wouldn’t count all of the Medicaid expansion population in its allotment formula, likely excluding many able-bodied adults making less than half of the federal poverty level. In addition to those restrictions, the plan would also spread funds to every state based on the sum total of existing Medicaid expansion allotments—meaning that states that haven’t expanded Medicaid would siphon off money from states that have. In essence, Graham-Cassidy would be like taking half the amount of butter and spreading it over twice the slices of bread."
Even more problematic for Obamacare's prospects, the senator from my state of Arizona, John McCain, who was able to stop Trumpcare using the AZ governor's opposition as shield, unfortunately won't be able to use the same tactic this time. The Arizona governor, republican Doug Ducey, is now endorsing Graham-Cassidy:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/graham-cassidy-and-the-finance-kid/540027/
"It turns out, though, that the draft version of Graham-Cassidy only does one of those things. The bill would keep most of Obamacare’s revenues, save for the mandate tax penalties and medical-device taxes, but would allow no way for states that have expanded Medicaid to continue current insurance systems or cover the same amount of people that they do now. The legislation would take funds currently allocated to premium tax-credits, subsidies, basic health plans, and the ACA’s Medicaid expansion and convert some of those funds to a large pot of money from which states could apply for grants, for which they would have to pay some of their own funds to match.
Those grants, however, wouldn’t cover the same number of people. For starters, the total allocated money would be less than what’s spent on those programs today. Also, as Health Affairs reports, Graham-Cassidy likely wouldn’t count all of the Medicaid expansion population in its allotment formula, likely excluding many able-bodied adults making less than half of the federal poverty level. In addition to those restrictions, the plan would also spread funds to every state based on the sum total of existing Medicaid expansion allotments—meaning that states that haven’t expanded Medicaid would siphon off money from states that have. In essence, Graham-Cassidy would be like taking half the amount of butter and spreading it over twice the slices of bread."
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/351196-arizona-governor-backs-new-obamacare-repeal-bill
"Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has endorsed a new Senate Republican bill that would repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Ducey, a Republican, called the legislation offered by GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (La.) "the best path forward" to gut the health-care law.
He also said the Senate had "12 days" to get the job done, a reference to the fact that Republicans will lose the right to use special budgetary rules to avoid a Democratic filibuster at the end of the month."
None of this is a surprise to me, bought-and-paid-for politicians will never pass any legislation that actually lowers the price of health insurance. For them, healthcare is a market commodity for which consumers (we, the people) need to pay top-dollar for.
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