Posted on 09/22/2017 6:38:28 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made these statements.
“My friendship with John McCain is not based on how he votes but respect for how he’s lived his life and the person he is.
“I respectfully disagree with his position not to proceed forward on Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson. I know Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson is the best chance to repeal and replace Obamacare.
“Obamacare is collapsing in Arizona, South Carolina, and across the nation - driving up premiums and reducing choices. I feel an obligation to fix this disaster and intend to push forward for state-centric health care versus Washington-knows-best health care.
“I’m completely convinced taking money and power out of Washington and returning it to states to administer health care is the best way to replace a collapsing Obamacare system. I’m excited about solutions we have found in Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson. We press on.”
I support decentralizing the Gov’t role in health care, as it gives at least some people some choice. Unfortunately, long term, from a monetary standpoint, that’s really almost an irrelevancy. If we don’t somehow get back to a highly competitive, efficient system, in which health care gets back down to, oh, say, 10-12% of GDP, our economy will struggle vs. most of the world. We have to at least be competitive with countries like Germany, while still avoiding some of the negatives of their system.
I’ve been POA for health care for both my Mom and Dad the last 3 years, dealing with many different caregivers and facilities, with my Dad especially needing a lot of care, and our system is just so screwed up with excessive red tape, bureaucracy, one hand not knowing what the other is doing*, non-continuity of care / rotation of caregivers (a different “hospitalist” in charge of a patient each week, and much worse when it comes to nursing staff), and so on, that it largely negates the wonderful medical technology now available, to say nothing of the efforts of the individual caregivers themselves, at least 75% of whom I have tremendous respect and gratitude for. Other than the aforementioned technology and knowledge available, the “system” is much poorer than it was 30-40 years ago, when I went through a lot with it, when my Mom nearly died and then had a very long recovery. There have been multiple times the last few years that I was so PO’d that I wanted to sue the bleep out of somebody (and I am in general very loath to do that sort of thing.) But, the problem is not an individual or a particular facility, the problems are endemic in the system: How does one sue a system?
*I’ve discussed this with multiple friends, in similar situations, too, and their usual reaction is to see where I’m heading and say something along the lines of “Yeah, like nobody knows what the f*** is going on!”
This is to say nothing of my own gripes with Obama-McCain Care, which is bad enough, but I think its effect is somewhat like a pneumonia in a patient who vomits and aspirates in a vicious cycle.
You mention reducing Medicaid roles, but, what is the answer? To receive Medicaid one has to be dirt poor / with basically no money or assets. No one supports just abandoning these poor people, who indeed are often NOT poor in the beginning, but have simply exhausted their finances on medical care, Independent Living or Assisted Living or Nursing Home care, etc. These things are horrifically expensive. I know this story all too well, because my parents, who started off in retirement fairly well “set” (certainly better than I will be, it appears), have lived this horror story, and me with them.
That said, and I do NOT mean this in a snarky way, being sorry doesn't cut it. What is your solution to the problem of not being able to support so many people on Medicaid? See my prior post.
Wow. I think I just wrote the most run-on sentence of my entire life.... :-)
Attempting to end the repeal by use of deception. “We tried the best chance” garbage narrative control.
The seed children of the Sadducees, Pharisees, the temple money changers, are 90% of congress by number.
Notice when the US fights a war, allied jets never consist of the most powerful nuclear nation from the Middle East.
Body mortgages fit right in with the money changers, except for one thing, they have no “Nero” yet, to fight the ethnos resistance.
Lamps full for the soon coming last trumpet call, from the far winds of the heavens.
God bless you, Paul.
Lindsey Graham....“My friendship with John McCain is not based on how he votes but respect for how he’s lived his life and the person he is”.....
He’d be further ahead if he did base it on how he votes!
McCain will soon be losing the brain cancer primary, but Rand Paul shouldn’t be left out of this. He is totally useless as a senator and will never be a key vote on anything. I will be supporting his primary challenger next time around. He’s there to sell his brand as a conservative purist as the left keeps locking in socialist gains. Imagine if he were president - we’d actually have to worry about whether we could pass something that he wouldn’t veto.
Winner!
I do not agree with you. I do not think of Graham as a hero, either.
I believe Graham really wanted to get something done. He is more about policy than McCain. McCain is bitter. Graham, for all his faults, not so much.
Yep! It was all Kabuki theater...i.e. rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Who in the heck would ever trust Lil’ Linda Gramnesty to do something pro-American?
Just changing from Fed Govt health care to State Govt health care.
No free market.
No interstate purchasing.
No tort reform.
Just more socialism “managed” by State Govt bureaucrats.
No,it does not affect me negatively. I agree with you. Too many illegals have been allowed Medicaid....which goes along with other welfare programs. Time for states to realize that federal taxpayer dollars are not up for grabs...and when US citizens need Medicaid, they can hold their state responsible for how they handle federal block money!
Time to put responsibility back on states. That is what Constitution was all about, anything NOT in Constitution should be a state issue, and responsibility! If their taxpayers are stupid enough to keep being state taxed for extra Medicaid monies, oh well! Those who want less state taxes will protest, and take their issues to state legislators!
He got shot down because his temper takes control and irrational behavior results.
McCain is a selfish old bastard.
Not trying to excuse the man by any means, but isn’t rage also a sign of brain dysfunction.
He really should be replaced for reasons of physical health.
Does this bill turn Medicare over to the states? That’s a huge change! It’s a federal program, never has been anything else.
Why can’t they just cleanly repeal Obamacare without dragging everything else into it?
OMG that is disgusting!
Paul won’t vote for this bill because it doesn’t really repeal anything.
“McCain hates Trump more than he loves his country or cares about his constituents”
What would be funny is if Trump from behind the scenes got Manchin and Heitkamp to flip and vote for the bill.
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