Graham-Cassidy Strips Away The Few Concessions GOP Moderates Already Won
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Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 6:00 AM
The Senate is barreling toward a vote next week on a recently unveiled bill that would repeal much of the Affordable Care Act and convert Medicaid into a shrinking block grant. With just a few days left to muster the 50 votes necessary to pass the bill before the clock on reconciliation expires, the bill’s conservative authors are pressuring their moderate colleagues to get on board, despite the fact that the bill includes none of the protections moderates have demanded for months, nor any of the concessions that they won in previous Obamacare repeal bills.
With only a single committee hearing, no markup, no complete score from the Congressional Budget Office and only 90 seconds of floor debate allocated for the bill, and no time to hold a conference committee with the House, moderates are essentially being told to fall in line and swallow the bill as is.
If Senate Majority Leaders Mitch McConnell (R-KY) holds a vote next week, he’ll be throwing under the bus moderates who promised their constituents opioid treatment funding, protection for Medicaid, and equal treatment for people with pre-existing conditions.
During Senate Republicans’ most recent run at repealing Obamacare, they threw in a provision that allocated a whopping $45 billion dollars for addressing the opioid epidemic in an attempt to win the votes of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), whose states have been hit particularly hard by the crisis. While experts noted that the $45 billion was nowhere near enough to address the addiction scourge gripping much of the country, it was a significant concession to those lawmakers.
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Heller, your toast.............your right wing governor sent and signed his name to a letter, denouncing this newest same old more extreme death panel that you now endorse, how do sleep at night
hey Heller, do you f*cking realize that giving the defense department 650 billion in tax dollars, that half of that money would stabilize the health care system----------------you really are a f*cking idiot
Portman, and Caputo must have millions to help family members with there pre-existing conditions, after all if they vote yes on this piece of sh*t legislation, they don't get the same health care coverage their under now, because they will exempt themselves like that ass**** Paul Ryan and that bunch of sh*t had in there bill................
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