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says WHO the cbo has not scored it yet!
Jimmy Kimmel is now an expect at health care?
his jokes are stupid
says WHO the cbo has not scored it yet!
Graham and Cassidy using how their bill hurts blue states as way to sell it to conservative senators
What makes the Graham–Cassidy attractive to Republican senators is threefold:
- First, its block grants to the states, so Republicans can claim to support federalism
- Second, they can tell their base that they are destroying Obamacare and Medicaid in one shot
- Third, it really, really hurts blue states, especially California and New York
Most states used the ACA’s funding to expand Medicaid; some Republican-run states, liberated by the Supreme Court’s decision to make the funding optional, did not.
As a result,
14 of the 15 states that would stand to gain from block grants are run by Republicans;
Democratic megastates including California, New York and Massachusetts would lose billions of dollars,
a feature both Graham and Cassidy have talked up to conservatives.
Get that?
Hurting California, New York, and Massachusetts is a feature that the authors of the bill are using to sell it to conservatives
“No longer will four blue states get 40 percent of the money,” said Graham to Breitbart.
“A state like Mississippi, they get a 900 percent increase. South Carolina gets 300 percent.”
Those four blue states also have considerably more than 40 percent of the people participating in the current plan, something that could be changed by simply implementing the plan in more states.
What Republicans have done is take the funding, including that from states that expanded Medicaid, then redistribute it across all states.
The result is a plan that would reward the states that were deliberately cruel to their own people, by giving them the money taken from the states that tried to set up more equitable systems.
It’s not just the Screw Blue Act,
it’s the Screw You For Trying To Help Act.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...ative-senators
Coverage Losses by State Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill to Repeal the ACA
https://www.americanprogress.org/iss...ll-repeal-aca/
This ty bill is, astonishingly, tier than the last ty bill.
Looks like the final gasp of a political party that long since ran out of ideas, or morals. Intellectual and moral bankruptcy.
Cue whataboutism in 3, 2, 1
We also have one of the highest rates of uninsured, mostly because we didn't do the medicare expansion.
That "winning" will be squandered by the morons in Austin on bathroom police, and abortion inspectors I'm sure.
Why do people pretend that they somehow won't end up paying for the care of the uninsured?
And Meryl Streep is overrated
because the Repugs/oligarchy know 10Ms of their cultist base are ing stupid, ignorant, uninformed, low-wage, low-education, and probably Christian-home-schooled or schooled in a Christian "school" and/or "university", then add in all the white public HS dropouts.
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Bipartisan group of governors voice opposition to latest Obamacare repeal effort in Congress
The latest Republican-led effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act has some resistance outside Washington: a bipartisan group of governors.
On Tuesday, nearly a dozen governors, including Bill Walker of Alaska, signed a letter opposing the new repeal legislation
In voicing their opposition, the group, led by Govs. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and John Kasich (R-Ohio),
denounced the legislation for being crafted behind closed doors.
“Legislation should receive consideration under regular order, including hearings in health committees and input from the appropriate health-related parties,”
the governors wrote in a letter to congressional leaders.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/wash...s=mcnewsletter
oh boy a cal paper that means that paper is from a different nation
McConnell Plans Senate Vote on Healthcare Next Week
The Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill was written by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La.,. It would give much of the money now directed to Obamacare to state goverments to spend.
young people pay more in auto insurance because they are worse drivers than older people
you Repugs want to punish people by charging them more for health insurnace.
Why aren't the Repugs charging you very fat and obese people and smokers a LOT more for your self-inflicted, AVOIDABLE health problems?
SO MUCH FOR STATES’ RIGHTS — GOP SENATOR WANTS TO BAN STATE SINGLE PAYER IN NEW HEALTH CARE BILL
LOUISIANA REPUBLICAN SEN. John Kennedy plans to use the most recent effort
to repeal and replace portions of the Affordable Care Act to push an amendment that would bar states from enacting their own single-payer systems,
the bill’s co-sponsors, Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La.,
told him that the measure already bans single payer,
but that he was welcome to offer his amendment either way.
“I don’t think states should have the authority to take money from the American taxpayer and set up a single-payer system,”
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/19/...lth-care-bill/
A Top Republican Just Admitted The Chilling Truth About The New Healthcare Bill
“You know, I could maybe give you 10 reasons why this [Graham-Cassidy] bill shouldn’t be considered,”
said Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa to the Des Moines Register this afternoon.
“But Republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign.
That’s pretty much as much of a reason as the substance of the bill.”
http://verifiedpolitics.com/top-republican-just-admitted-chilling-truth-new-healthcare-bill/
so, damn the consequences on Americans, esp the bottom quintile, Repugs just gotta keep this one campaign promise to screw Americans and over Obama
I've never been to Iowa but from the politicians it elects, the people must really, really suck.
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5 big lies Sen. Cassidy told about his health bill after Jimmy Kimmel called him a liar
The “more people will be covered” lie
- “There will be more people covered under the Graham-Cassidy- er-Johnson amendment than are under status quo.” – Cassidy on MSNBC
- “Under Graham-Cassidy- er-Johnson more people will have coverage.” – Cassidy on CNN
The “pre-existing conditions protections” lie
- “We protect those with pre-existing conditions” – Cassidy on MSNBC
- “We protect those with pre-existing conditions. If a state applies for a waiver it specifically says the state must establish there is adequate and affordable coverage for those with pre-existing conditions.” – Cassidy on Fox News
- “We protect those with pre-existing conditions.” – Cassidy on CNN
The “helping states bypassed by Obamacare” lie
- “There will be billions of dollars of coverage for, working families in states like Maine, Virginia, Missouri, Florida and elsewhere, states that have been bypassed by Obamacare.” – Cassidy on MSNBC
- “States like Maine, Virginia, Florida, Missouri — they’ll be billions more dollars to provide health insurance coverage for those in those states that have been passed by by Obamacare.” – Cassidy on CNN
- “Our families will pay less under the Graham-Cassidy- er-Johnson amendment in states like [Louisiana, Massachusetts] once the governors implement those plans.” – Cassidy on MSNBC
The “sick children will have the coverage they need” lie
- “[T]he state has the ability to provide coverage so when the child has a problem the parents have the coverage that the child’s problems can be addressed” – Cassidy on Fox News
- QUESTION: “So any child born with a congenital heart disease would get everything he or she needs?” CASSIDY ON MSNBC: “Absolutely.”
The “low-income seniors and people with disabilities will have the coverage they need” lie
- QUESTION: “So your bill, Dr. Cassidy, as I understand it, cuts coverage for low-income seniors, children and people with disabilities.” CASSIDY ON MSNBC: “That’s not true.”
https://thinkprogress.org/lies-cassi...-3818f110e32b/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sponsors-...230119341.htmlIn general, the bill would move money from Democratic to Republican states. Graham and Cassidy have generally acknowledged this, when pressed, and sometimes justified it in the name of fairness.
Republican weasels basically want to take more money from blue states to give it to red states. Look again at the map.
I'm hearing the Repug conspirators throwing around "federalism" as justification for the no-strings block grants to states that shift money from Medicaid-expansion blue states to Medicaid-denied red states.
"federalism" is their new euphemism for the dog-whistle of "states rights"
Trash and ALL the Repugs are LYING about Trashcare
Kimmel destroyed the LIES of Cassidy
here's Trash adding his LIE to the pile
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...%2Fposts%2Fall
If the Repugs had any balls, guts, or spine, actual or metaphorical, they'd vote down Trashcare rather than kowtow to Kock Bros extortion
Koch network 'piggy banks' closed until Republicans pass health and tax reform
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...are-tax-reform
Key results from the Politico-Harvard poll:
•40 percent of those surveyed want to see Congress try to help lower the cost of prescription drugs this fall.
•33 percent want to see the minimum wage raised at the federal level.
•30 percent want to see the budget and overall spending reduced.
•26 percent want to see Obamacare repealed and replaced.
•24 percent want to see a spending increase to improve the nation's infrastructure.
•23 percent want to see Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election investigated.
•20 percent want federal taxes on individuals and businesses reduced.
•11 percent would like to see Congress focus on building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico in the fall.
All 50 States Just Took An Unprecedented Step Against Senate’s Trumpcare Bill
A tweet from Andy Slavitt, President Obama’s former Medicaid chief, is sending shockwaves through social media.
The former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just tweeted out that the bipartisan Medicaid Directors from all fifty U.S. states have issued a joint negative statement about the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill.
https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/...mpcare-bill%2F
In the letter, the fifty Medicaid Directors did not hold back their criticism of proposed legislation, which Republicans are strong-arming to a vote late next week:
The Board of Directors of the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) urges Congress to carefully consider the significant challenges posed by the Graham-Cassidy legislation.
State Medicaid Directors are strong proponents of state innovation in the drive towards health care system transformation.
Our members are committed to ensuring the programs we operate improve health outcomes while also being fiscally responsible to state and federal taxpayers. In order to succeed, however, these efforts must be taken in a thoughtful, deliberative, and responsible way.
We are concerned that this legislation would undermine these efforts in many states and fail to deliver on our collective goal of an improved healthcare system.
They then proceed to enumerate in detail all the ways that Graham-Cassidy will harm both health care outcomes and fiscal responsibility,
citing “the apparent lack of federal funding in the bill to support these critical activities,” and the fact
zthat Republican lawmakers are in a “rush” to pass the bill without “thorough discussion, examination, and analysis.
http://verifiedpolitics.com/50-state...rumpcare-bill/
At least 48 DEPLORABLE Repug Senators don't GAF what these people say.
Their ONE and ONLY objective, behind all the Repug LIES, buried behind Trashcare is a huge tax cut.
Trump makes it very easy for senators to just vote no. He thinks fear works with everyone.
Not all of them are Ted Cruz's.
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