Posted on 08/08/2019 12:11:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said this week that Republicans would push to repeal ObamaCare if they win back the House and President Trump is reelected in 2020.
"If we can get the House back and keep our majority in the Senate, and President Trump wins reelection, I can promise you not only are we going to repeal ObamaCare, we're going to do it in a smart way where South Carolina will be the biggest winner," Graham said in an interview with a South Carolina radio station.
"We've got to remind people that we're not for ObamaCare."
Graham's repeal bill, introduced in 2017, would eliminate major sections of ObamaCare, including subsidies that help people buy insurance and the Medicaid expansion that covers low-income adults in 36 states and Washington, D.C.
The bill would essentially shift money from states like California that expanded Medicaid to states that didn't, like South Carolina. Such a move could force some states to cut health care services and reduce eligibility.
"If we could get the money back to the states, Democratic policies would be tested against our policies," Graham said.
"This scares the hell out of the Democrats. This is what 2020 is about."
Previous GOP attempts to repeal ObamaCare were a driving force in Democrats taking back the House in 2018 and the issue has also reemerged among 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls debating the best approach to health care.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has emphasized the need to shore up ObamaCare from attempts by Republicans and the Trump administration to dismantle the law, while several of his progressive rivals have focused on pushing policies such as "Medicare for All."
Democrats ran on protecting ObamaCare during the 2018 midterms and accused Republicans of trying to take away protections for those with pre-existing conditions.
House and Senate Democrats plan to follow the same playbook in 2020, as the Trump administration supports a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the entirety of ObamaCare.
As such, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has veered away from talking about repealing ObamaCare, instead focusing on smaller health care fixes.
Graham on Tuesday touted his bill, which would allow states to opt out of consumers protections, like those that prevent insurers from charging people with pre-existing conditions more for coverage.
Senate leaders decided in 2017 not to put Graham's repeal bill up for a vote because it didn't have enough support. Conservatives fumed that Republicans failed to repeal ObamaCare despite having a majority in both houses with a Republican president.
GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Rand Paul (Ky.) and the late Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) all opposed the bill. But Graham insists it would be different next time.
"We were one vote short in the Senate," Graham said.
The Democrats create entitlements not by surperior argumentation on what is right and proper but by spending first, for they know that once the piggies have their snouts in the public largess they will pitch a fit should it be withdrawn and that the Republicans will be too cowardly to risk upsetting people that will not vote for them anyway.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! It would have already been gone if it hadn’t been for your “dear friend” John McNuts!
Sadly the American people have no stomach for governance by constitutional means or for honorable men in governance who will obey the Constitution either, they love the FDRs and no-Repeal Eisenhowers.
Aack you beat me to it.
Fool me once...
not helpful.
Oh Yeah i’m With you don’t believe a word of it, they had the chance and SCREWED us royally, give us the house, the senate and POTUS and it WILL BE REPEALED, LIARS all of them!!!
Why do I get an image of Lucy holding a football here?
With polls like Graham in office they will eventually give democrats every thing they want including medicare for all. Can’t SC wise up to this guy?
It should have been killed a long tome ago, why are we still dealing with it
Good Linda,
Now put your money where your Mouth is and Push through Legislation in the Senate MANDATING ALL Non-Military Federal Employee’s immediately Enroll in Obamacare, ANd Use All the Money wasted on inferior health coverage for Federal Employee’s on the WALL!!!
Put that in your Pipe John Roberts!
Yeah, yeah, if you believe this bold faced lie, there’s a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.
Well the good thing is, people are not forced to buy it anymore. So now it has become an option rather than a mandate. It’s still a bad bill though, because it has driven up the cost on everyone.
That ship sailed, gutless losers.
I’m getting a picture of Lucy, a football, charlie Brown ...
Liar.
F’n LIAR!! You and your boyfriends go back to Charleston— and butt hump there.
“Made a deal with Sen. Blumenthal”..... You are DONE Lindsey!
Done.
Why not repeal now?
People like Graham are playing a game. They do not want to repeal. I wonder what kind of money is involved.
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