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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

The GOP’s on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its entirety

Author:     IAN MILLHISER
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     SEP 18, 2017, 3:29 PM
 Link: The GOP’s on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its entirety
Stephan:   I had a full lineup of stories for today's edition and, then, this afternoon stories began to come out on the smaller media outlets about yet another Republican attempt to screw millions of people out of their healthcare. With Irma, the Russians, and the North Koreans, the media has overloaded. They can only do two stories a day, and they are swamped out. So this seems to be happening with very little public discussion. I haven't heard a single story on the new reality examining what Senator Lindsey Graham and his spiteful band of trolls are up to, and very close to achieving. If you want to protect your healthcare you better get on the phone to your representative and Senators and let them know you feelings.

From left, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., hold a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, to unveil legislation to reform health care.
Credit: AP/Andrew Harnik

Senate Republicans are on the cusp of passing a bill that will eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars worth of health funding, destabilize insurance markets, and eventually phase out Medicaid in its entirety. Less than two months after three Republican senators stopped an earlier effort to strip away much of America’s health care safety net, millions of Americans’ health care is now in very serious peril.

The new Trumpcare legislation — often referred to as “Graham-Cassidy” after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidey (R-LA), its leading proponents — contains several provisions undercutting the Affordable Care Act. It eliminates subsidies helping many millions of Americans purchase health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges and Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, replacing this funding with a less generous block grant to states.

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1 Comment

  1. sam crespi on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    Just emailed all my friends and asked them to pass the link forward and post on their FB pages. Enough noise and we WILL stop it AGAIN! Enough noise and they won’t think of bringing it again so soon.