Earlier today we
learned that Republicans in the Senate are far from done with their quest to
take away healthcare from millions Americans, and with an eye on the Sept. 30
deadline set by the Senate parliamentarian for passing a bill with 50 senators
instead of the usual 60, Senate Republicans are now desperately trying to
secure enough votes for the awkwardly named Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson bill,
which would repeal many of Obamacare’s taxes, mandates, and subsidies while
converting Medicaid and the ACA exchanges into block grants controlled by each
individual state. Joining me today to
talk all about this proposed piece of legislation and the opposition to it is Alice Ollstein who is a reporter at
Talking Points Memo, covering national politics.
Since we last spoke
with John Nichols of The Nation a lot has happened from Pres.
Trump making yet another possible deal with Democrats, this time on DACA, to
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont releasing his Medicare For All plan. John
returns to the show today to talk all about these issues and whole lot more,
John is The Nation’s national-affairs
correspondent, a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times
and the associate editor of The Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.
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