Senate GOP Embraces FUBAR Process For Last-Ditch Obamacare Repeal Effort
Cameron Joseph contributed reporting.
The Senate has less than two weeks, and just a handful of working days, to repeal Obamacare and block-grant Medicaid with a mere 50 votes.
“This vehicle that we’re using turns into a pumpkin on September 30th if we don’t get something else done,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) warned Tuesday.
With the clock ticking, Senate Republicans have thrown together a crude imitation of regular order in an attempt to quickly check all the necessary boxes and win over their colleagues who are sticklers for process. Next week, they plan to plow through a single hearing, receive an incomplete analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, and if they shore up the votes, take it to the Senate floor for a whopping 90 seconds of debate before launching into a vote-a-rama.
Some Republican lawmakers are less than pleased.
“That’s problematic because that is part of the problem of short-circuiting the process,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) complained, lamenting that the last-minute repeal effort is having the side effect of killing the bipartisan health care stabilization bill she and others have spent months negotiating.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/senate-gop-embraces-fubar-process-for-last-ditch-obamacare-repeal-effort
Hey Heller, when was the last time you checked in with your "republican" governor on this new measure, here let me remind you you POS....................
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bill-walker-brian-sandoval-oppose-graham-cassidy-bill
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Under latest health-care bill, red states would benefit disproportionately
The latest Republican proposal for curtailing the Affordable Care Act was assembled with such haste that it may get a vote before a full cost estimate is finished. But it is not a new idea.
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 he’s 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.
“Let’s get back to the basics of being conservative,” Graham said in a Saturday interview with Breitbart News. “We take the money that we would spend on Obamacare in Washington, and we block grant it to the states.”
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_repealpolitics-735a-2%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d37eea29624b
Take from one state and give to a state that never gave it to the population in the first place, and then blame government
