Trumpcare Megathread: It's dead (for now)

[GeorgiaModerate]

Assuming McCain would vote yes but can't make it there to actually do it, is there any chance he resigns and allows the AZ gov to send a replacement? If/when McCain is ready to come back, the replacement could resign and the governor could appoint McCain back to the seat.

And/or is there any chance Republican leaders are pushing for this behind the scenes?

If it was a Democratic senator in this situation and the state had a D gov, I would be demanding this to happen.

McCain doesn't seem to be a fan of the bill.  Simply not voting may be a good solution for him.  I posted this the other day:

McCain may be a no:

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Gov. Ducey supports repealing the ACA, but has expressed objections to the Senate bill:

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Good response:

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The clowns over at HFC looking to gut the CBO for using facts:

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Serious question for the historians here: has there ever before been such a clown show in Congress over a major piece of legislation?

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Trump at a Boy Scouts speech in WV...what a bunch of morons. Premiums will jump by 300% in WV under his sh**t health care bill

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This is disgusting.  There's a time and place for politics.  Leave the Scouts of it.

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Noam Levey @NoamLevey
Senate health cmte chair Alexander calls for " small, bipartisan & balanced" bill to stabilize insurance markets. That's actually a BIG deal

That's adorable he thinks Trump will let this happen

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Republican donor sues GOP for fraud over ObamaCare repeal failure

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I'm sure this will go nowhere, but it's amusing.

[GeorgiaModerate]

New Kaiser poll

ACA favorability:

Favorable 52 (Very favorable 30) - record highs for both
Unfavorable 39 (Very unfavorable 29)

View on Senate bill not passing:

Good thing 60
Bad thing 35

Next steps:

Fix remaining problems with ACA 69
Continue with repeal & replace 29

[GeorgiaModerate]

Just in case there's not enough going on in the political world, tomorrow the CBO will release its score of what happens if Trump stops ACA subsidy payments.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/346560-cbo-to-release-report-tuesday-on-ending-obamacare-insurer-payments

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CBO score if Trump costs off CSRs to the insurance companies

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August CSR payments will be made

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Vox has an interesting article on shifting American attitudes on the government and health care.  Using data from Gallup and Pew polls, they found a huge swing in just the last four years.  On the question of  whether it's the federal government's responsibility to ensure that all Americans have health coverage, the results were:

2013: 42/56 (-14)
2014: 47/50 (-3)
2015: 51/47 (+4)
2016: 51/46 (+5)
2017: 60/39 (+21)

That's a net change of +16 in the last year, and an astonishing +35 over four years.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/16/16158918/voxcare-poll-government-run-health-care

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Arizona Gov. Ducey comes out in support of Graham-Cassidy: https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/909833548986687489.

McCain has indicated he'd base his vote on whether Ducey supported it.

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Planned Parenthood (a big factor for Collins & Murkowski) says "This bill is the worst Obamacare repeal bill yet."  https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/909841995111305217

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AARP:

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According to a GOP Senate aide, here are some changes a new draft of the G-C bill might include for their "Alaska Purchase" in order to swing Murkowski. Basically, Alaska gets to keep Obamacare.

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http://ijr.com/2017/09/979983-republicans-attempt-buy-murkowskis-vote-new-draft-health-care-bill/

You know your bill's not very popular when the only way you can try and get people to vote for it is to say it won't apply to their state. It's a little funny.

Winning strategy: make a carve out for every state, pass the bill, and declare victory.

[GeorgiaModerate]

According to a GOP Senate aide, here are some changes a new draft of the G-C bill might include for their "Alaska Purchase" in order to swing Murkowski. Basically, Alaska gets to keep Obamacare.

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http://ijr.com/2017/09/979983-republicans-attempt-buy-murkowskis-vote-new-draft-health-care-bill/

You know your bill's not very popular when the only way you can try and get people to vote for it is to say it won't apply to their state. It's a little funny.

Winning strategy: make a carve out for every state, pass the bill, and declare victory.

Technically even this wouldn't be "victory" since it's just punting Obamacare to the states for the most part. That would be even less so.

Exactly.  But they would claim they had successfully passed a repeal bill.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Nevada Gov. Sandoval (R) slams Graham-Cassidy:

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Brookings analysis: 21 million more uninsured with Graham-Cassidy

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New PPP poll, Sep 20-21, 638 RV

Graham-Cassidy: 

Approve 24%
Disapprove 50%

ACA is 54/38

Several other questions on Graham-Cassidy in the poll.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Sen. Joni Ernst is holding a town hall and responds to a Graham-Cassidy question: "I'll be honest, it seems unlikely that we'll be voting on this." Room bursts into applause.

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/911313538152587265

[GeorgiaModerate]

Chances of any repeal passing now? Gotta be slim to none right?

Slim, yes.  Don't say "none" until after Sept. 30.

[GeorgiaModerate]

It's not dead yet.  The GOP is trying to tweak G-C to bring Murkowski and/or Collins on board: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/23/obamacare-repeal-gop-tweak-cassidy-graham-243054