GOP senator meeting with White House on new ObamaCare plan

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said he's meeting with the White House and the Trump administration "two or three times per week" on a plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
 
Cassidy has teamed up with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) on a new proposal that would essentially block-grant ObamaCare funding to the states while repealing the law's individual and employer mandates.

"I think the president is impatient and the president is kind of jamming the agenda a little bit, rightly so," Cassidy told The Advocate. "He's afraid momentum will dissipate."

"One thing I will guarantee is that I'll continue to fight to come up with a plan that fulfills President Trump's campaign pledges and returns power to patients, returns power to states and is both fiscally sustainable for the individual as well as for the taxpayers."

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/346597-gop-senator-meeting-weekly-with-white-house-administration-on-Obamacare

Hasn't their chance to do this via reconciliation come and gone?

[skylucy]

1. ...

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Interesting spin once again.

Gee,block grants,what can go wrong with that worn out idea. Golly Gee whiz. Another White People only idea coming from the Alt-right supporting Political Party.

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3. Oct 1 resets the fiscal calendar.

[bdamomma]

4. so in the meantime

we are being distracted this kind of shit is going on. Everyday the trump regime is sabotaging the American people we better keep up on this regime.

Michael Moore was on Lawrence O'Donnell last evening talking about selling of our lands. We are being screwed every minute, each day that this regime is in power they are dismantling our country.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I saw Moore and agree and have been saying this since Feb

when he started dismantling the EPA and scientific research and data. The fake prez is causing harm and danger in big and small ways. Some are seen and people are aware of them (like Climate Change and the ACA) and others aren't like the numerous bills taking away needed funding or protective restrictions from many programs that benefit the animals, people, environment, etc.

[moonscape]

5. No ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141833044#post65

[procon]

7. Same old malarky.

This would still undermine ObamaCare to the point of forcing the whole program to collapse.

...a new proposal that would essentially block-grant ObamaCare funding to the states while repealing the law's individual and employer mandates.

Republicans aren't fooling anyone but their ignorant base with his snow job.