Kasich-backed plan to fix Obamacare still stands a chance
With all the attention this week on the Republicans’ last desperate push to overturn Obamacare and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new single-payer bill that’s going nowhere, has the bipartisan health-care effort backed by Gov. John Kasich fallen by the wayside?
Quite the contrary, several analysts say.
Thomas Miller, a health-care specialist at the Washington-based nonprofit American Enterprise Institute, predicted the only bill that has a chance of passage is the bipartisan measure expected to be unveiled next week by GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington. That’s the one expected to be most like a proposal by Kasich and seven other governors from both parties.
“The reason it can pass is it doesn’t change anything,” Miller said. “They enact the status quo.”
Miller predicted the GOP’s latest plan to repeal Obamacare has little chance of approval. To pass the Senate with only 51 supporters, the vote must occur by Sept. 30; after that, it would need 60.
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