Yeah! Me to! I would like to see the actual bill before I pronounce judgment instead of other people's opinions.
IF this is true then I'm all for it!
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/9/20/16333338/obamacare-repeal-graham-cassidy
That's actually the most detailed analysis I've seen yet. To me this bill is a very mixed bag and a crap shoot.
However, the one thing that this does is take the general day-to-day management of the insurance markets out of the hands of the FedGov bureaucracy and gives it to the states, with rules. That is a major selling point for all the obvious reasons.
It does get rid of the mandate and the penalty which is a high priority. There are some other rules though that have been kept that need to go, and some new rules I'm not sure about.
The crux though, is now the states have skin in the game. They are now motivated to apply pressure to modify the rules. which I doubt would even be a possibility under a total FedGov managed system, or would occur so slowly as to be meaningless deck chair arranging. It means conservatives could mutate the rules along the way to get some of the things they want, like selling across state lines.
And that is the crap shoot. The bill isn't particularly great right now, but there is and open door opportunity to maneuver to improve it. So I can't say I necessarily support the bill, but I'd be willing to gamble on the basic structural shift to the states as a malleable template that could be modified into something much better over time.
