Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday called the bill a handful of Republicans are advancing to overhaul Obamacare an "intriguing idea," and offered it as a foil to the socialized medicine approach recently endorsed by 16 Senate Democrats and independent Bernie Sanders.
The overhaul bill would transfer Obamacare's revenue to states in the form of block grants so they could set up their own healthcare systems. It also would repeal the individual mandate and employer mandates.
"Governors and state legislators of both parties would have both the opportunity and the responsibility to help make quality and affordable healthcare available to their citizens in a way that works for their own particular states," McConnell, R-Ky., said. "It's an intriguing idea and one that has a great deal of support."
Until these remarks, delivered on the Senate floor, McConnell had been largely silent about the legislation. He worked this summer to repeal and replace portions of Obamacare but a measure to narrowly repeal parts of Obamacare, called "skinny repeal," ultimately failed in July after all Democrats and three Republicans voted against it.
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