Over the weekend, Senate Republicans revised their disastrous Graham/Cassidy health care repeal bill.
These changes weren’t for the better. Without any regard for how it would impact millions of Americans, they weakened protections for people with preexisting conditions, while keeping the age tax on seniors, and slashing Medicaid.
Here are nine things you need to know about the new bill.
Graham-Cassidy 2.0 is out — and it’s protections for pre-existing conditions look even weaker https://t.co/tyPbvkeGKl
— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) September 25, 2017
Spot on from @JRubinBlogger on Grassidy 2.0.
Worse. Much worse. https://t.co/yCWDuedWdF
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 25, 2017
The new Graham-Cassidy bill directing more cash to Kentucky-Arizona-Alaska-Maine, ie the 4 senators opposed, is a shockingly blatant bribery
— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) September 25, 2017
KEY: Grassidy 2.0 is health insurance for healthy ppl, boondoggle 4 red states, robs Medicaid, and won’t be properly scored. A disgrace. 15/
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 25, 2017
The table released by Graham/Cassidy is a fraud. https://t.co/DidKt8a5QS
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) September 25, 2017
Just in: the new text of the #GrahamCassidy bill allows states to allow insurance companies to no longer cover birth control at all.
— Erica Sackin (@ericajanes) September 25, 2017
The sentence below is all Graham-Cassidy 2.0 says about people with pre-existing conditions, who will lose guarantee of equal $ treatment. pic.twitter.com/03eDXP8GxK
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) September 25, 2017
Senators Cassidy & Graham revised their #ACArepeal bill. Wondering what it does to #Medicaid? Still nothing good… https://t.co/LPx1RvvgWo
— Hannah Katch (@hannahkatch) September 25, 2017
Inside the Graham-Cassidy hearing room the vast majority of public seats have been taken out & replaced w/ spaciously arranged press seats pic.twitter.com/QKU5MsZinb
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) September 25, 2017
