What rude beast slouches forth THIS goddamned time? With less than two weeks to go before the deadline to pass a bill with only 50 votes, Senate Republicans are giving one more try to repealing and "replacing" the Affordable Care Act, this time with what may well be the worst possible plan they've offered yet, the
“A comprehensive CBO analysis is essential before Republicans force a hasty, dangerous vote on what is an extreme and destructive repeal bill,” Pelosi and Schumer wrote to CBO Director Keith Hall in a letter first obtained by POLITICO. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), ranking members of the Senate and House Budget committees, also signed on.
Republicans have until Sept. 30 to pass an Obamacare repeal using only party-line support under the fast-track process known as reconciliation. Senate GOP leaders are mulling bringing the Graham-Cassidy bill up for a vote next week, if they can get support within the conference.
If, like me, you shun talking to people on the phone, Resistbot is awesome. If you can afford to text, message RESIST to 50409 and they will ask a couple of questions and then fax your reps for you. I do this weekly. Sorry if someone down thread already posted this
I sent letters yesterday via Resistbot, today faxes via Resistbot and finally called today. My senators are assholes but can't let them act without objection.
CBO is aiming to provide a preliminary assessment of the Graham-Cassidy bill by early next week. That assessment, which is being prepared with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, will include whether the legislation would reduce on-budget deficits by at least as much as was estimated for H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act, as passed by the House on May 4, 2017; whether Titles I and II in the legislation would each save at least $1 billion; and whether the bill would increase on-budget deficits in the long term. CBO will provide as much qualitative information as possible about the effects of the legislation, however CBO will not be able to provide point estimates of the effects on the deficit, health insurance coverage, or premiums for at least several weeks.
And that’s not all. Graham-Cassidy goes perhaps even further than its predecessors in eroding basic insurance protections and providing for poor people, allowing states to spend their grant money on just about any kind of insurance program—with no obligations to cover a certain amount of low-income people. There would also be opt-outs for most of the significant insurance regulations in Obamacare, including its strict measures on community rating, and premium price controls on the basis of preexisting conditions, age, and other factors (except sex). The plan would also cut the ability for states to pay for their share of care through provider taxes, reducing the richness some states can afford.
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“A comprehensive CBO analysis is essential before Republicans force a hasty, dangerous vote on what is an extreme and destructive repeal bill,” Pelosi and Schumer wrote to CBO Director Keith Hall in a letter first obtained by POLITICO. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), ranking members of the Senate and House Budget committees, also signed on.
Republicans have until Sept. 30 to pass an Obamacare repeal using only party-line support under the fast-track process known as reconciliation. Senate GOP leaders are mulling bringing the Graham-Cassidy bill up for a vote next week, if they can get support within the conference.
You'd think Putin would pay his people enough to cover their legal fees.
Hard to predict?
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·Sep 15Under Cassidy-Graham states get block grants for health care. Every state would have to create a whole new program between now and 2020.
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Center on Policy and Budget Priorities. Several articles on Graham-Cassidy bill.
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It looks like they are going to try to make an actual office visit instead of just a protest. If you're on FB look for the Indivisible CLE group.
If, like me, you shun talking to people on the phone, Resistbot is awesome. If you can afford to text, message RESIST to 50409 and they will ask a couple of questions and then fax your reps for you. I do this weekly. Sorry if someone down thread already posted this
I sent letters yesterday via Resistbot, today faxes via Resistbot and finally called today. My senators are assholes but can't let them act without objection.
They just keep banging away at this, obsessive? Do they really hate Bamz so much??
Faxed my senators at 5 AM about this using Resistbot. My husband called them at lunchtime. Apparently, Burr still has his voicemail on.
all black and brown people in fact
oh, and vagina havers of all colors
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CBO is aiming to provide a preliminary assessment of the Graham-Cassidy bill by early next week. That assessment, which is being prepared with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, will include whether the legislation would reduce on-budget deficits by at least as much as was estimated for H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act, as passed by the House on May 4, 2017; whether Titles I and II in the legislation would each save at least $1 billion; and whether the bill would increase on-budget deficits in the long term. CBO will provide as much qualitative information as possible about the effects of the legislation, however CBO will not be able to provide point estimates of the effects on the deficit, health insurance coverage, or premiums for at least several weeks.
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https://www.theatlantic.com...
And that’s not all. Graham-Cassidy goes perhaps even further than its predecessors in eroding basic insurance protections and providing for poor people, allowing states to spend their grant money on just about any kind of insurance program—with no obligations to cover a certain amount of low-income people. There would also be opt-outs for most of the significant insurance regulations in Obamacare, including its strict measures on community rating, and premium price controls on the basis of preexisting conditions, age, and other factors (except sex). The plan would also cut the ability for states to pay for their share of care through provider taxes, reducing the richness some states can afford.
yup...mothafuckas will fuck mothas
shocked, maybe....surprised?--definitely not...this is the true essence of exploitative, dystopian capitalism
On behalf of those of us with only Democratic senators, thank you to all you red-staters for calling yours, and please drive them nuts!