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Conservatives and the Rotten Smell of States' Rights
The roots of the Graham-Cassidy bill are deep and poisonous.
Whose rights?
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As Congress factors in Senator John McCain’s refusal to back, for now, the latest scrupulously unvetted legislation to scramble the American health-care system, the gamey smell of states’ rights still lingers in the air.
“Instead of a Washington-knows-best approach like Obamacare, our legislation empowers those closest to the health-care needs of their communities to provide solutions,” said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, co-sponsor of the latest scratch at the Republican itch to destroy Obamacare anyway, anyhow. “Our bill takes money and power out of Washington and gives it back to patients and states.”