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New version of health-care bill will help Alaska and Maine - home of two holdout senators [View all]
Source: Washington Post
New version of health-care bill will help Alaska and Maine — home of two holdout senators
By Sean Sullivan, Paige Winfield Cunningham and Abby Phillip September 24 at 10:00 PM
BREAKING: Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) will release a revised version of their health-care bill Monday aiming to send more health-care dollars to the states of key holdout Republicans.
The Cassidy-Graham bill overhauls the Affordable Care Act by lumping together spending on subsidies and Medicaid expansion and redistributing it to states in the form of block grants. Alaska would get 3 percent more funding between 2020 and 2026 and Maine would get 43 percent more funding during that time period, according to a summary of the revised legislation obtained Sunday by The Washington Post.
Republican senators from both states, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, have said they want to understand how Cassidy-Graham would affect their states before supporting the bill. Both have expressed deep opposition to cuts to health-care spending under previous versions. Independent analysts had estimated that both states would lose federal funding under the earlier Cassidy-Graham bill.
Arizona, where Republican Sen. John McCain has also indicated he may not vote for the bill, would see a 14 percent increase, according to the estimates. The estimates also take into account the amount of money states would save because they no longer have to match the expanded Medicaid program with any of their own dollars.
Three people with knowledge of the draft said Cassidy planned to unveil it Monday.
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By Sean Sullivan, Paige Winfield Cunningham and Abby Phillip September 24 at 10:00 PM
BREAKING: Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) will release a revised version of their health-care bill Monday aiming to send more health-care dollars to the states of key holdout Republicans.
The Cassidy-Graham bill overhauls the Affordable Care Act by lumping together spending on subsidies and Medicaid expansion and redistributing it to states in the form of block grants. Alaska would get 3 percent more funding between 2020 and 2026 and Maine would get 43 percent more funding during that time period, according to a summary of the revised legislation obtained Sunday by The Washington Post.
Republican senators from both states, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, have said they want to understand how Cassidy-Graham would affect their states before supporting the bill. Both have expressed deep opposition to cuts to health-care spending under previous versions. Independent analysts had estimated that both states would lose federal funding under the earlier Cassidy-Graham bill.
Arizona, where Republican Sen. John McCain has also indicated he may not vote for the bill, would see a 14 percent increase, according to the estimates. The estimates also take into account the amount of money states would save because they no longer have to match the expanded Medicaid program with any of their own dollars.
Three people with knowledge of the draft said Cassidy planned to unveil it Monday.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-health-bill-in-major-peril-as-resistance-hardens-among-key-senators/2017/09/24/bc927d06-a134-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html
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