Vanity Fair
By: Abigail Tracy
Few Republicans, let alone most Americans, seem to know what’s in Graham-Cassidy, the fifth incarnation of the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, though the bill may be on the verge of passing the Senate. There have been no public hearings, and no official score from the Congressional Budget Office.“If there was an oral exam on the contents of the proposal, graded on a generous curve, only two Republicans could pass it. And one of them isn’t Lindsey Graham,” one senior G.O.P. aide told Axios earlier this week. “You could do a post office renaming and call it ‘repeal-replace’ and 48 Republican senators would vote for it sight unseen.”
…
“Kimmel did not overstate the impact,” Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families director Joan Alker told Politico. “If Graham-Cassidy becomes law, there is no guarantee a child born with a congenital heart defect will get the coverage they need. It would depend on where they live, but even states with good intentions would struggle to protect children with the massive cuts to Medicaid included in this bill.”
…
Read more here.