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Freedom Caucus Leader Offers Tepid Support For Graham And Cassidy's Obamacare Replacement
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said聽Friday聽that a new ObamaCare replacement bill in the Senate is the "most promising" option for repealing the law.聽Meadows spoke favorably of the bill from Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), which would replace ObamaCare with block grants to states instead of the law's current spending on subsidies and Medicaid expansion. (Sullivan, 9/8)
A long-shot Obamacare repeal bill from a pair of Republican senators would set aside $1.2 trillion in state block grants by 2026 and create two formulas to determine funding, according to details shared with GOP governors and obtained by POLITICO. Forthcoming legislation from Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) would replace Obamacare funding for Medicaid expansion and private insurance subsidies with block grants. (Pradhan, 9/8)