Blunt, GOP leaders back new health bill
The
Republican senators this week have revived a repeal-and-replace bill they hope will succeed where the July legislation fell short.
"I think there is a legitimate chance in the next few days to look at this proposal that would essentially take all of the health care money and just turn it back over to the states," said
The so-called
Among the bill's features, states would get block grants for use in administering health care programs.
"Our goal, by 2026, is to make sure that every patient in every state gets the same contribution roughly from the federal government, and allow people in your states to make decisions that would have been made in
Backers claim greater flexibility and efficiency would arise from such an arrangement.
"It not just puts a little more control (in the states), it puts unbelievably high levels of control closer to where families are," Blunt said Tuesday in a radio interview on NewsTalk 97.1 in
The Missourian said his state would get 186 percent more money for health care under the Cassidy-Graham legislation. Blunt added that four states --
"This would be a fairer distribution of that," he said.
The majority leader of the
"Governors and state legislators of both parties would have both the opportunity and the responsibility to help make quality and affordable health care available to their citizens in a way that works for their own particular states," McConnell said on the
Schumer took a dimmer view of this. The Democrat especially recoiled against the fact that the
The
"Senators will be voting blind," Schumer said Tuesday. "You know, they say justice is blind but the senators on the other side of the aisle should be walking around here with a blindfold over their eyes."
Later in the day, Schumer produced a letter signed by 10 governors, including four
Defense measure passes
On Monday night, the
The measure proved significant for
Blunt and
The bill heads next to the
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