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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnder latest health-care bill, red states would benefit disproportionately
By David Weigel September 20 at 6:00 AM
At its core, the bill introduced by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) would implement a decades-old conservative concept, capping the amount that taxpayers spend on Medicaid and giving states full control over the program. As hes sold the legislation to conservative governors and activists, Graham has described it as a possible triumph for federalism, and a way to end the progressive dream of universal health care managed from Washington.
Whats new, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, is a discrepancy in state-by-state funding that would be flattened out by the block grants. Most states used the ACAs funding to expand Medicaid; some Republican-run states, liberated by the Supreme Courts decision to make the funding optional, did not. As a result, 14 of the 15 states that would stand to gain from block grants are run by Republicans; Democratic megastates including California, New York and Massachusetts would lose billions of dollars, a feature both Graham and Cassidy have talked up to conservatives.
We will either have to kick hundreds of thousands of people off of health care, or we will have to dramatically increase taxes, said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), in one of a string of Monday night floor speeches by Democrats.
No longer will four blue states get 40 percent of the money, said Graham to Breitbart. A state like Mississippi, they get a 900 percent increase. South Carolina gets 300 percent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/under-latest-health-care-bill-red-states-would-benefit-disproportionately/2017/09/19/fe26e61a-9cb3-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_redstates-735a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.55e459784f0a
Apparently, Republicans love them some redistribution of wealth.
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Under latest health-care bill, red states would benefit disproportionately (Original Post)
octoberlib
Sep 2017
OP
Yes, this is what is called buying votes and have read that have been doing it
BigmanPigman
Sep 2017
#1
Just give some medicaid money to red states who turned it down when it was called Obamacare
greymattermom
Sep 2017
#2
BigmanPigman
(51,672 posts)1. Yes, this is what is called buying votes and have read that have been doing it
since the July vote. This bill (Graham Cassidy)was crafted before the McCain NO vote repeal. They just never got around to it then. They are buying votes by taking money from the blue states to pay as bribes for a NO vote this time to the GOP senators.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)2. Just give some medicaid money to red states who turned it down when it was called Obamacare
and leave the rest of the states as is. Call it Trumpcare and be done with it. The next president can make some improvements and we'll call it nextpresidentcare.
CincyDem
(6,419 posts)3. Well son, ya see this here money ya givin' me now - it's comin' from a white man's hand...
...that Obamacare money, well...ya see it's been touched by a black man's hand and, well...ya know...we just can't have a white man in South Carolina takin' hand outs from a black man. Just ain't right, ya see what I'm sayin'.
These guys are such asshats.