Lindsay Graham embraces Breitbart
ADDY BAIRD at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/grahamcassidybreitbartacarepeal-d551621b2433/
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has often painted himself as a responsible Republican who will call out President Trump for his misdeeds, appealed to Trump’s nationalist base over the weekend, appearing on Breitbart News Radio to promote his bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The bill, which Graham has proposed with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would repeal the individual and employer mandate as well as a number of the taxes established under the ACA. The plan would ultimately block grant health care to the states and governors would design health care systems within their own states.
Despite Graham’s rosy presentation, the bill would have many of the same effects as earlier attempts to repeal and replace would have, as states could raise premiums when and however they chose. The repeal of the mandates could also result in a death spiral, and states could lose $300 billion in federal health care funding.
Trumpcare threatens to collapse many insurance markets.
Graham painted the plan as the antithesis of the single-payer health care bill unveiled by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) last week, which would, over the course of four years, expand Medicaid eligibility to all residents.
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