GOP changes Graham-Cassidy bill to win over wary senators

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GOP changes Graham-Cassidy bill to win over wary senators
By Peter Sullivan - 09/24/17 10:17 PM EDT

Senate Republicans on Sunday night circulated a revised draft of their bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare, aiming to win over key holdout senators.

According to estimates of the state-by-state impacts obtained by The Hill along with the revised bill, Maine and Arizona would see boosts in funding. Alaska would see a small drop in federal funding.
The analysis from the backers of the bill argues that after taking into account money the state would save on its Medicaid program, Alaska would gain relative to current law. But Democrats argued that is misleading and said what matters is that Alaska would see a cut in federal funding.

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[endicom]

Good to see they've hit the ground sprawling.

[Applewood]

More rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic. 

It's still not a repeal. 

[INVAR]

I see that they have dropped the pretenses and have now gone from faux repeal of ObamaCare to We Need To Save ObamaCare.

[XenaLee]

Good to see they've hit the ground sprawling.

Good to see they're being honest (as best they can be) about the federal control (funding) aspect in this bill.   It's the same ole pig with just a different shade of lipstick (fool me twice hot pink).

[corbe]

   The Cruz/Lee recommendations were accepted in Committee last week then unceremoniously dumped 2 days later, that's why these two fine Senators released statements 'against', this weekend.  This week they are gonna monkey around again and achieve nothing, it's all a charade. McConnell won't even allow a vote by weeks end, to protect his incumbents who never wanted to Repeal ACA anyway and I don't hold Trump blameless in this CF. Just my 2 centavos