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WASHINGTON Health insurers, who had been strangely quiet for much of the year, came off the sidelines to criticize it. Many state Medicaid directors could not stomach it, either.
For months now, proposals to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act have risen and fallen in the House and the Senate, almost always uniting health care providers and patient advocacy groups in opposition but winning support among conservatives, including Republican policy makers. But the version drafted by Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and hastily brought into the spotlight last week went further.
It brought much of the health care world together to stop it, an effort that appears to have succeeded not for ideological reasons, but for the simple reason that administrators, caregivers, advocates and insurers believed it could not work.
Senate Republican leaders hoped to bring the measure to the Senate floor for a vote this coming week. But the bill is on life support after Senator John McCain, the unpredictable Arizona Republican whose dramatic no vote killed the previous repeal effort, announced on Friday that he could not in good conscience vote for the bill. He joined Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, in opposition and Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, is leaning hard toward no.
The three would be enough to doom the bill.
I think Republicans remain pretty trapped between an abstract promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the reality of what that would mean, said Matthew Fiedler, an economist at the Brookings Institution who advised President Barack Obama on health policy. That basic tension is going to remain.
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louis-t
(23,295 posts)Since when does anything the GOP does have to "work"? They are not economists, they are not scientists, they are ideologues. They deal in revenge, hatred, narcissism, and condescension.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)keeping WI alive for the last 7 years.
Warpy
(111,259 posts)Anybody over 30 knows all about it. We remember all too well what happened the last time the insurance executives made their own rules: early death and bankruptcy if you weren't quite ready to die.
NCDem777
(458 posts)that ALL their bills spend more time eviscerating Medicaid than the actual ACA. Outside of the whiny Libertarian set, Medicaid is pretty popular. Especially now that people are learning what it actually does.