Last week senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina introduce their legislation aimed at replacing the Affordable Care. Heres a looked at their statement on the senate floor. Av this is have no. Mr. President , youve spoken i many times when i about obama care. We didnt succeed at the beginning of august i personally come along with senators graham, johnson and helen make it one more try. Folks asked why. Lohow theres a man back home whos a conservative talk show host whoo speaks with passion about the Affordable Care act and why does he speak with passion . O he has a special needs child and he has to buy insurance. His premium per year is overtibe 40000, 40000. The 5000 deductible and additional for his pharmaceutical costs. He gets paid 50000 year for insurance deductible andme pharmaceutical deductible. S what the mortgage payment for 500,000 home is what he puts a because he has to buy insurance, he has a child with special needs. There are many people across our nation. Macare, s
Some of the president s supporters have probably misinformed him about the impact of immigrants. Every study shows that immigrants create much more jobs than they take away. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention. In the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff from mexico to the caribbe
Some of the president s supporters have probably misinformed him about the impact of immigrants. Every study shows that immigrants create much more jobs than they take away. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention. In the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff from mexico to the caribbe
Lastditch effort to repeal the Affordable Care act. What this would do is change the existing system of both the Affordable Care act and medicaid and change it into a block grant. States would get a sentiment of money to do whatever they wanted in their health care system. They could implement a plan similar to the Affordable Care could go singlepayer, or they could go a conservative route and undo some of the parts of the Affordable Care act, particularly the protections that some folks like. These are the preexisting conditions, things like that. Governors would be able to undo those things and have this pot of money to implement their own health care system. We will take a look at some of the details offered by senator graham on the senate floor, and we will come back to our discussion. Sen. Graham will keep medicare in place as it is today. We will have flexibility. Indiana is a good example of what happens when you give states flexibility to help people. What i dont like with medi
Bill cassidy of louisiana and bill graham. What is in this measure . This is the last ditch effort therying to repeal Affordable Care act. What it will do is change the existing system of the Affordable Care act into a block grant. Ttates would get a se amount of money. They would take those dollars and implement either a plane similar to the Affordable Care act, they could go singlepayer or a conservative route and undo some of the parts of the Affordable Care act. Particularly the Consumer Protection some folks like. These are the preexisting conditions, things like that. Governors would be able to undo those things and have this pot of money to implement their own system. We will take a look at some of the details offered up i senator graham on the senate floor. Medicaidraham we keep in place. We try to get more flexibility because indiana is a good example of what can happen if you give states flexibility. One thing i dont like, you can run to the emergency room and we pay a big bi