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Source: Washington Post
By Sean Sullivan, Paige Winfield Cunningham and Abby Phillip September 24 at 10:00 PM
BREAKING: Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) will release a revised version of their health-care bill Monday aiming to send more health-care dollars to the states of key holdout Republicans.
The Cassidy-Graham bill overhauls the Affordable Care Act by lumping together spending on subsidies and Medicaid expansion and redistributing it to states in the form of block grants. Alaska would get 3 percent more funding between 2020 and 2026 and Maine would get 43 percent more funding during that time period, according to a summary of the revised legislation obtained Sunday by The Washington Post.
Republican senators from both states, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, have said they want to understand how Cassidy-Graham would affect their states before supporting the bill. Both have expressed deep opposition to cuts to health-care spending under previous versions. Independent analysts had estimated that both states would lose federal funding under the earlier Cassidy-Graham bill.
Arizona, where Republican Sen. John McCain has also indicated he may not vote for the bill, would see a 14 percent increase, according to the estimates. The estimates also take into account the amount of money states would save because they no longer have to match the expanded Medicaid program with any of their own dollars.
Three people with knowledge of the draft said Cassidy planned to unveil it Monday.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-health-bill-in-major-peril-as-resistance-hardens-among-key-senators/2017/09/24/bc927d06-a134-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)senators who are "undecided". This is BS. If they were decided they couldn't be bought off, PERIOD. The mega rich donors are getting the return on their investment....TAX CUTS!!!!! This has NEVER been about people or health care and has (and will) always be about $$$$$!!!!
DO NOT TRUST THE GOP!!!! EVER!!!
McConnell will never give up. He MUST WIN...no matter how many people die as a result (I AM ONE OF THEM)!!!!! Please stay vigilant and keep calling until Oct 1st! (202)224-3121 THANK YOU!!!
pwb
(11,258 posts)The blue states have equal rights and if this goes through blue states should withhold tax payments or maybe even tax republicans in there states higher than democrats. Pay back for this will be harsh. If they can do it we can do it.
The link but I will look harder. The way I understood it was the states with more wealth get less money.