Courtesy of The Week:JUST OUT: Here's a summary of the Graham-Cassidy repeal. Yes, it's that bad.— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 13, 2017
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On Wednesday, Republican senators introduced the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson health-care bill, the party's latest attempt at repealing and replacing ObamaCare. The legislation, introduced by Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Dean Heller (Nev.), and Ron Johnson (Wis.), proposes "a block grant given annually to states to help individuals pay for health care." "This proposal removes the decision from Washington and gives states significant latitude over how the dollars are used to best take care of the unique health-care needs of the patients in each state," a statement said.
Graham goaded his Republican colleagues to not "let the health-care debate die," as he warned that a single-payer system would be "inevitable" if Republicans fail to undo ObamaCare. He declared this bill Republicans' "best and only chance" at dodging that.
"If you want a single-payer health-care system, this is your worst nightmare. Bernie, this ends your dream of a single-payer health-care system for America," Graham said in a shout-out to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). On Wednesday afternoon, Sanders is expected to introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2017, a bill backed by at least 15 Democratic senators that would replace the current health-care system with a public system paid for by higher taxes.
The good news is that there is only fifteen days left before the Republicans lose the fast-track procedural powers that they need in order to bypass a filibuster by the Democrats.
The bad news is that the guy who helped stop the LAST repeal Obamacare bill, John McCain, has already signaled his support for this one.
I personally do not think this will make it through either, but that does not mean we can sit back and simply hope things work out.
Time to start sending those emails and making those phone calls again.
Here is the contact information to help you get started.
Democratic hold outs on Medicare For All have received twice as much insurance industry cash as sponsors:
ReplyDeleteSen. Gary Peters - $168,300
Sen. Ron Wyden - $148,550
Sen. Chuck Schumer - $134,350
Sen. Mark Warner - $124,700
Sen. Debbie Stabenow - $113,200
Sen. Bob Casey - $105,600
Sen. Patty Murray - $97,982
Sen. Michael Bennett - $90,900
Sen. Bill Nelson - $79,738
Sen. Fick Durbin - $64,450
Ron Wyden doesn't surprise me one bit.
DeleteHe's as fickle as they come.
Um, that's how shit works ya know.
DeleteShow me a legislator, state or national, that isn't purchased and owned by special interests and I'll show you a unicorn that shits rainbows.
BBC:
ReplyDeleteParsons Green: Theresa May scolds Trump for terror tweets
British Prime Minister Theresa May has rebuked US President Donald Trump for claiming suspects in Friday's London train blast were known to police.
"I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation," she said.
Mr Trump described the attackers in a tweet as "loser terrorists" and "sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard".
....In tweets earlier in the morning, Mr Trump appeared to chide UK authorities: "Must be proactive!"....
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41283984
Is this a FU to Trump?
ReplyDeleteNick Timothy
✔@NickJTimothy
True or not - and I'm sure he doesn't know - this is so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/908642277987356673 …
3:50 AM - Sep 15, 2017
Ben not you too? This is Trump being Trump.
ReplyDeleteAdvice to your country: Ignore Trump like we do
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Ben Howlett @benhowlettuk
It is highly unhelpful/dangerous and inappropriate for an ally to make announcements that share intelligence and undermine investigations https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/908642277987356673 …
4:16 AM - Sep 15, 2017 · London, England
From Thresa May's lips to Trump:s ears
ReplyDeleteWatch "LIVE: Theresa May comments on the Parsons Green metro explosion" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/DK2uWqvScHo
EVERY citizen of this country should be outraged. WHY do these deadbeats in DC think they deserve a "cadillac healthcare" subsidized by taxpayers, while the rest of us get crumbs? Remember, theirs is for LIFE.! If the plan they propose is so good, why are they not enrolled? Hypocracy at it's highest level.
ReplyDeleteThey're trying to sneak it through while people are suffering from media-induced exhaustion from being so fixated on the last two weeks' worth of hurricanes. Congress is trying to sneak anti-healthcare bills through; Trump is trying to sneak his gigantic tax cut for the richest through. Where does this leave us, the American people?
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it has zero chance of passing but if you want to follow Gryphen's orders to call and talk to Congressional interns, go right ahead. Better to spend your time registering voters for 2018.
DeleteGryphen's orders? Why do you have to be such a dick?
DeleteI'd think that the people that were actually IN the hurricanes are rather exhausted, but the rest of us?
DeleteHello, not everyone chains themselves to the internet or TV and becomes a part of every disaster that happens on the planet.
I, and lots of folks I know couldn't tell you squat about the hurricanes; who was affected even what states they hit, but damn, some of you seem to dwell on other people's disasters.
We'll probably have another 9.0+ up here one day, nice to know there will be so many sharing in our misery, not that it does a damn thing ;-)
NOW what?""It was a privilege to be able to serve the president and vice president inside the administration and I'm very much looking forward to speaking on behalf of the president and the vice president and their political efforts outside the administration,""
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/15/marc-lotter-leaving-white-house-242772
The Sanders bill is going to fail too.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, they're making a big mistake.
Instead of having both private insurance AND Medicare for all, they're trying to force everyone to enroll in Medicare. That will never fly.
Once again, expose foot, take aim.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-health-care-plan-headed-wrong-direction-195344703.html
"The Democratic party finally has a rallying cry: Medicare for All.
Too bad it’s a hopeless cause.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has turned a key plank of his quixotic presidential campaign into new legislation meant to expand health care coverage to all Americans. It’s a bold idea that addresses a genuine problem, which is why liberal Democrats such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris back the idea. But Sanders et. al. are aiming for the impossible when something more plausible could accomplish the same thing.
Sanders wants to scrap the entire private insurance system and enroll everybody in Medicare, the health care program for seniors. Doctors and other providers would stay the same, in theory, but there would be no insurance companies and workers would no longer get coverage through an employer. The elimination of middlemen, along with the government’s enhanced bargaining power, would supposedly lower costs, benefiting everybody (except insurance company employees).
The Sanders model is “single-payer”: The government would pay for everything. It would lead to “universal coverage,” which means everybody would have insurance. But single-payer and universal coverage are not the same thing, and it’s possible to have universal coverage without the government running everything."
"A hybrid system, with both public- and private-sector elements, is probably the most likely path to universal coverage in the United States. Employer-sponsored plans already cover nearly 160 million Americans — half the nation’s population. Rolling everybody off those plans into some kind of government program would be inconceivably complex. The scale of snafus would make the botched rollout of Obamacare in late 2013 look like a well-choreographed ballet.
The employer-sponsored health care system could definitely be cheaper and better, and it imposes the strange burden of providing health care on companies that don’t exist for that purpose. But it’s also one part of the health care system that works reasonably well, and leaving it in place would amount to doing no harm."
"If the employer-sponsored system remained intact, the government could then be the insurer of last resort for everybody who didn’t get insurance through their job. Some people worry about the creep of “socialized medicine,” but the idea of government-provided catastrophic care has had support among Republicans in the past. The legendary conservative economist Milton Friedman proposed government-provided catastrophic care back in 2001. Mitt Romney, when he was the Republican governor of Massachusetts, put a government-backstop plan in place statewide in 2006. Instead of Medicare for All, the more workable idea is Medicare for More."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-single-payer-bill-major-support-senate_us_59b87dc1e4b02da0e13d465f?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Now I suppose it's possible it's being proposed this way as a bargaining chip, so that eventually it will gain support as it pulls back to a Medicare for most" expansion. But really, the chances of this thing being passed are slim, fat and none.
Especially as it's coming out at the same time as Donald Trump's Tax Reform (for ME! sucks to be you) plan.
You do realize that we're going to have Obamacare for at least Trump's first term and then if he is re-elected it will remain for his second.
DeleteNo one is going to actually get the support to delete it, change it or improve it, so get used to it. It's just a thing that Congress does, now 67 times and it will be 67 times that it has failed and will probably be a hundred fails by the end of Trump's second term.
Sorry, but they are going to repeal it or destroy it through "amending" it or just starve it to death by withholding money.
DeleteEven with one term, Trump and the Death Party aren't going to stop as long as they have a majority. Which they will have for the forseeable future. (2018 is already lost.)
They lost by ONE VOTE and that vote has now turned to support Lindsay Graham's New and unimproved Death Bill, now with even more cruelty.