GOP is about to release FOURTH iteration of the Graham-Cassidy-bill.

[DetlefK]

Yeah, the bill you have been fretting over?
The bill where you complained that it will be put up for a vote before it can be analyzed?
You can forget it.

The GOP has written YET ANOTHER version of the bill, so any analysis up to this point is moot again.
But don't worry, even though the bill keeps changing (2) and changing (3) and changing (4) the GOP still wants to pass it by this week.



https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senator-collins-opposes-graham-cassidy-health-care-bills

Sweeping reforms to our health care system and to Medicaid can’t be done well in a compressed time frame, especially when the actual bill is a moving target. Today, we find out that there is now a fourth version of the Graham-Cassidy proposal, which is as deeply flawed as the previous iterations. The fact that a new version of this bill was released the very week we are supposed to vote compounds the problem.



Who knows? Maybe McConnell will slip in a fifth, entirely unknown version 5 minutes before the vote?

[riversedge]

1. repugs released one Sunday evening. Are you saying they will release yet another one?

[demmiblue]

4. No, her press release refers to the one that was released on Sunday. n/t

[underpants]

2. I feel a disturbance in the fourth

[brooklynite]

3. What version are you talking about?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Desperate much

I would say that I don't understand how/why they think they can ram a bill through in days that affects 1/6th of the economy but then it seems as though nearly all of the Republican caucus will uncritically jump to vote for anything McConnell puts up for a vote regardless of whether the bill is any good and/or harms people.

[gratuitous]

6. Sen. Wyden took Cassidy to the woodshed for that yesterday

At the hearing, Wyden was holding up the third version of Graham-Cassidy with a note that it had been received at 9:21 that very morning. Wyden said it was impossible to hold a hearing on a bill that had been delivered to the committee members on such short notice.

And now, there's another version today? I don't care where you fall on the political spectrum, this bullshit is NOT governance.

[tblue37]

7. Each new iteration includes stuff intended to bribe the "no" voters to

change their votes to "yes."

[Ms. Toad]

8. Please provide a source for your assertion that yet another version

is about to be released.

It is challenging enough to be able to function in the face of the continual actual threats to my daughter's health care. Please don't scare me (and others similarly situated) by alarming captions that are not (to my knowledge) true.

[DetlefK]

9. This is a press-release by republican Senator Collins.

[Ms. Toad]

11. It was a Monday press release,

announcing the version that had already been released (past tense) and that she had already announced she would be voting against by the time you posted the caption that the GOP was about to release another new version (future tense). You posted it on Tuesday as something "about to" happen.

I had just breathed a sigh of relief Monday evening that Graham Cassidy was going down, and then I run across your headline announcing that it had regained life with yet another bill that they are about to release (presumably sometime after Tuesday, since you used future tense in your headline). It is hard enough living with the uncertainty that actual new attacks on the ACA generate. Please be careful to distinguish between past news ("about to" would only have been accurate prior to Monday when the 4th version was introduced - not on Tuesday afternoon when you posted the headline - unless you have a source other than the press release that is addressing the version that had been released Monday morning.)

[lindysalsagal]

10. This one includes a photo of the boat the gop will give each senator if they vote yes.

And hides the number of people who will be dead in weeks after its installation.