Trump, Pence personally working the phones for Graham-Cassidy

[Free Vulcan]

President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are personally working the phones to help Senate Republicans succeed in their last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare, the vice president said on Tuesday.

As Pence departed New York on Air Force Two after watching Trump's speech to the United Nations General Assembly, he met extensively with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has led the GOP push to rally support for the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill. The legislation would convert Medicaid spending into block grants and do away with the exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act.

Pence and other senior administration officials have phoned senators to express their support for Graham-Cassidy, the vice president and Graham told a reporter traveling with them back to Washington for the Senate policy lunch. Pence has even called Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia to gauge his position on the healthcare bill.

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[Smokin Joe]

Relevant: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/18/sen-rand-paul-grahamcassidy-does-not-repeal-obamacare-and-oppose-it.html
Sen. Rand Paul: Graham/Cassidy does NOT repeal ObamaCare and I oppose it

Make no mistake – Graham/Cassidy keeps ObamaCare funding and regulations in place.  Oh, it rearranges the furniture a bit, changes some names, and otherwise masks what is really going on – a redistribution of ObamaCare taxes and a new Republican entitlement program, funded nearly as extravagantly as ObamaCare.
Graham/Cassidy doesn’t repeal a single ObamaCare insurance regulation.  All of the Title 1 rules, the Essential Health Benefit rules, all of them - they’re still in place here.