1.Graham–Cassidy makes it easier for states to waive Obamacare insurance mandates, including several mandates most responsible for driving up health care premiums.
2.Graham–Cassidy helps to refocus Medicaid on those who are most in need. These changes would put federal financing of Medicaid on a sustainable path.
3. But the Senate should ensure that the bill is changed to fulfill the goal stated in the legislative text: creating a “market-based healthcare grant program.”
In short, Members of Congress should not be under any illusion that passing Graham–Cassidy relieves them of the burden of continuing to reform the health care system in a more patient-centered, market-based direction.
When the Dems eventually regain power, they will tweak it to their liking. That is why it must only be REPEAL and NO REPLACE.
More than anything else, this Cassidy-Graham bill removes INDIVIDUAL & EMPLOYER MANDATES to buy government dictated features in every insurance policy.
That does more for freedom of choice in health insurance than anything else.
1.Graham–Cassidy makes it easier for states to waive Obamacare insurance mandates, including several mandates most responsible for driving up health care premiums.
Actually, it does not. It imposes more federal control and allocation of dollars of what is spent on so-called pre-existing conditions that will be further litigated and agitated by leftist groups.
2.Graham–Cassidy helps to refocus Medicaid on those who are most in need. These changes would put federal financing of Medicaid on a sustainable path.
Why not just turn Medicare/Medicaid over to the states to begin with instead of confiscating state tax dollars to go to Washington and then get redistributed anyway?
3. But the Senate should ensure that the bill is changed to fulfill the goal stated in the legislative text: creating a “market-based healthcare grant program.”
Republicans ran on full repeal, not "conservatizing" liberalism. Go to the source of the problem. Fedgov has no constitutional authority in healthcare.
This is only partial replace with no repeal whatsoever.
Linda Graham’s joke of a law is obamacare 2.0. You still end up giving premiums free to others but buying you own. I don’t want to pay for others. There is no right to health care insurance premiums. Buy if you want it!!Obtain a job and seek priorities as to your expenditures . If you want health insurance BUY IT YOUR SELF.I did nott take you to raise and I sure don’t care what you do yourself in a free country.God Bless the defeat of this socialized medicine. Who cares whether states or feds steal your money?
What does the bill say? Why can we not read it and advise our legislator what to do?
4. It’s 95% obamacare- Come on everybody, We gotta pass something so we don’t look so stupid and worthless!
So the left and east coast go full single payer.. it will fail. Why should we bail them out..
This bill bails out insurance companies and spends more and more money.
I heard the block grants will be evenly distributed, so they want you to believe that for every one dollar California get, Mississippi gets one dollar. Do you really believe that? Would you envision any math that would call that a probability?
These states can’t manage their Medicaid? Why do they get more spending?