Senate GOP accidentally admits Obamacare is successful by offering it to Alaska as a bribe

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Senate GOP accidentally admits Obamacare is successful by offering it to Alaska as a bribe
By Matthew Chapman | September 21, 2017

In pushing their disastrous health care bill, Senate Republicans are now trying to buy off Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski by exempting her state from almost the entire thing. But if Obamacare is such a failure, why would the GOP try to bribe each other with it?
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill is still just shy of the 50 votes it needs to pass the Senate, and Republicans are getting desperate as the September 30 deadline gets nearer.

One of their main targets is Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who has solidly voted against previous GOP repeal bills, but who has publicly remained undecided for this one.

Republicans have apparently had no luck getting a commitment from her so far, because their latest tweaks to the Graham-Cassidy bill are clearly and pathetically engineered to buy her vote.

Under the latest revisions, Alaska gets to keep the Obamacare tax credits while they are phased out elsewhere. The state is also exempt from the drastic changes to Medicaid cost structure, like block grants and per-capita caps, that the rest of America gets.

And for good measure, Alaska and a few other small, rural states will have their Medicaid matching rates increase........................................



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[SoCalMusicLover]

1. And Imagine What Else They're Offering Her

Who knows what she is being offered behind closed doors.

[Stuart G]

3. They will offer her..."everything"..

Will she give up her "integrity" for "everything"...She knows the bill is total s**t..

and it removes total funding for Planned Parenthood, something she said she totally supports....classic case...
"integrity" vs EVERYTHING...

[WhiteTara]

2. They are so evil.

I can't understand how hate can be that strong that it strangles all human emotion. They are demons and deserve Hell.

[Stuart G]

4. but ..Lisa Murkowski knows this...and it is very important...

Let's say she votes for this ...s**t ..so she get what they offered...

Murkowski knows the rest of the country...gets f**ked with this. She knows that no matter what they offer her. Planned Parenthood, and the help it gives...will be f**ked by this. She know this.....She knows many states will not replace Obamacare..with anything...she knows that too, even if they give her...."everything"

So...is "everything" worth the rest of the country being ...f**ked?

And is "everything" worth all her so called...."integrity"...?

Answer..we will see how she votes...Oh, and we know that thousands will live and die on this decision..
Is that correct?????

I forgot...Thank You.. riversedge... for the Original Post... This is very important

[atreides1]

5. She won't get anything!

The House will remove anything that she is promised!

[pangaia]

6. That was my sneaky guess....

[Dem2theMax]

7. Contact Senator Murkowski.

I live in California. I just went to the Senator's website and she takes emails from ANY state, not just Alaska.

Here is her website; https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/home

It can't hurt to contact her about the bill. And it just might help.

[Awsi Dooger]

8. This is what Kimmel and Maddow, etc. should be emphasizing

This and nothing else. This and nothing else.

It's devastating, so easy to understand, and doesn't take long to describe. Those are the effective topics, not the marathon repeat and repeat again crap that Rachel Maddow typically abuses.

Not many people in Alaska so the Republicans don't care about protecting Alaskan health care to sway Murkowski's vote, as long as they screw the rest of the nation, and give Trump the satisfaction of gloating over the appeal of Obamacare.

That's it. All you need to say. Some version of that. Throw in Koch Brothers if you must but that will confuse the vast majority of the audience who have never heard of them.

It would be far more effective than anything I heard today.

[Hortensis]

9. Murkowski in July: Lets just say that they do something thats so Alaska-specific just to

quote, ‘get me.' Then you have a nationwide system that doesn’t work. That then comes crashing down and Alaska’s not able to kind of keep it together on its own.”

Hope she still believes that.