Competing plans deal Senate health-care push a surprise setback
Source: The Washington Post
By Sean Sullivan, Kelsey Snell and Juliet Eilperin July 13 at 12:24 PM
The Senate GOPs push to rewrite the Affordable Care Act suffered an ill-timed setback Thursday, as two centrist Republicans announced plans to offer their own health-care plan just as leaders released an updated bill of their own.
The move by Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.) and Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) to debut their health-care proposal on CNN moments before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was set to brief members demonstrated how divided the majority remains in its quest to overhaul former president Barack Obamas signature health-care law.
In a joint interview with CNN on Thursday, Cassidy and Graham said that they would take the billions of dollars the federal government now receives in taxes under the ACA and direct that revenue to the states.
Were going to see which one can get 50 votes, Graham said, referring to the number of GOP senators needed to approve any bill in the Senate, given that Vice President Pence is prepared to cast the tiebreaking vote. Referring to McConnell, he added, Were not undercutting Mitch; hes not undercutting us.
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hibbing
(10,098 posts)Love how the press is still calling it a "health-care plan". It is a tax cut for the ruling class and huge cuts in "health care".
Peace
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)Aint that a shame
standingtall
(2,785 posts)The so called competing plan looks pretty much like the other Republican plan. Still block granting medicaid. Still removing the indivual mandate. So basically a plan that will insure less people and for people still insured worst coverage. This was the plan Graham said would attract a handful of Democrats. Please! If even one Democrat supports this we are to have a damn riot.