Republicans have unveiled their brave new strategy for fixing the U.S. health care system: Make someone else deal with it.
Of all the god-awful Obamacare-repeal-and-replace plans that Republicans have proposed, Cassidy-Graham might be the god-awfulest. It’s definitely the most cowardly. Republicans spent nine months fighting over how to repeal Obamacare without shafting the poor and enraging voters, and they failed.
It would eliminate the Obamacare individual market subsidies, which help low- and middle-income people buy insurance. It would also repeal Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion money. After an enormous across-the-board cut to federal health spending, Congress would give each state a block grant.