MPH’s Graves comments on Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill
Senate Republicans, seemingly short on votes for their last-ditch plan to repeal Obamacare, are desperately tweaking the bill in hopes of winning over both their moderate and conservative wings.The result is a plan from Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-SC) that would go even further in rolling back Obamacare’s protections for people with preexisting conditions, while adding hundreds of millions of dollars meant to sweeten the deal for senators from key states.
The bill “amounts to launching a cannonball into the insurance pool and then claiming it won’t cause a splash or make anyone wet,” said John Graves, a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University. “This is a radical restructuring of the insurance market, with predictable consequences and probably an endless list of unintended consequences.”