GOP senator eyes ban on states single-payer systems

[turbinetree]

Source: The Hill

Republican Sen. John Kennedy (La.) is reportedly eyeing a ban on state single-payer health care systems in the new GOP ObamaCare repeal bill.

"I think a single-payer system is a bad idea," the senator said Monday in comments reported by The Washington Examiner.

"I think if you give a big chunk of money to California they're going to go set up a single-payer system run by the state and then come back and say, 'We don't have enough money, we need more.' I think the only way we are going to solve the healthcare problem in America is through the private sector."

The GOP has once again embarked on a health care push, as Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) pursue their new legislation to repeal much of ObamaCare by converting funds into block grants to states. The bill, known as Graham-Cassidy, has yet to garner the 50 votes needed for a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence.
"I don't think states should have the authority to take money from the American taxpayer and set up a single-payer system," said Kennedy in the Monday comments.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/351344-gop-senator-eyes-ban-on-states-single-payer-systems

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FUCK YOU asshole, and FUCK YOU and the horse you rode in on and "all" of your fucking republican cronies

[dbackjon]

1. Agreed - ANTI-AMERICAN FUCK

Every GOP is anti-American. Just remember that.


They are NOT working for the interests of 98% of Americans.

[Zoonart]

27. Not only are the American oligarchs against

Health coverage for the plebs...they ate going to actively LEGISLATE
against it. Get the pitchforks ready this is going to a whole new level.
Ps- stop complaining about Dems. We will fix them later.

[dragonlady]

35. If he thinks a block grant under Graham's bill would enable a state single payer system

He may want to vote against the bill. That would be just fine.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. I hope I live long enough to watch the American people wake up to the FACT

that the GOP is trying to kill them.

I want to watch what they do about it.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Each and every one of these horrible people deserves to be destroyed. Pure fucking evil. Damn them

[greymattermom]

4. States rights

Right, Aren't you for states rights?

[Major Nikon]

6. Not when it gets in the way of greed, which will always be the GOP's #1 priority

[packman]

8. State Rights? - He doesn't give a damn

It's the Insurance Industry Rights to lobby and hand him payouts, that is the issue.

He doesn't want to see that goose that lays those golden eggs into his wallet die.

[Moostache]

15. Depends on which state and which rights...

California and Single Payer experiments? Oh hell no....that is a worthy intervention of federal power.
Alabama and illegal voting rights violations and suppression? Absolutely a state-level issue...nothing to see here, move along...

[Pope George Ringo II]

24. It's like when "limited government" meets abortion interference

It would be one thing if they at least had some genuine guiding principles and the courage of their convictions.

[hvn_nbr_2]

29. "States' rights" only applies for racist laws. nt

[FiveGoodMen]

30. No one is EVER for states' rights when their party controls DC

[SusanaMontana41]

37. Holding states hostage. Nice.

Does this fall under the Commerce Clause?

[azureblue]

5. here's what's gonna happen, you dolt

you haven't quite figured out that you are from a taker state, have you? and blue states, which are almost all giver states, are supporting your state. So have you ever stopped to give some thought to the idea that CA, OR, NY, etc. may just get tired of your S(&% and quit giving money to states that keep crapping on them? Just as a reminder, CA, a democratic state, has an economy that is the 7th largest in the world. They can tell you and the rest of your kind to rightly F^&* off and there is not a damn thing you can do about it. They can and will set up their own health care system. And your state will go down the toilet in no time without blue state money...

[IronLionZion]

7. They're really worried now

these assholes think we're going to get state single payer!

[SunSeeker]

9. The GOP only believes in "States' Rights" when they're used to deny civil rights.

This from the same state that claimed states have a right to ignore federal desegregation laws. But when it comes to states giving African Americans and the rest of us healthcare, then suddenly the feds are not brown shirts but the incontrovertible authority!


Fuck you Senator Kennedy, you evil piece of shit. I bet you got into politics trading on the coincidence that you have the same name as a beloved President--it probably fooled a lot of rubes in Louisiana into voting for you. You sir, are no John Kennedy.

[Wounded Bear]

13. "States rights" has been used to justify some of the most heinous shit in US history...

Just sayin'.

[SunSeeker]

18. Of course. By that very state.

But when progressive states like California try to flex their muscle to save lives, conservatives lose their shit. Apparently, States Rights only means the right to do evil.

[dflprincess]

42. Bill Maher's New Rule on liberal states' right

[SunSeeker]

43. LOL

[Nitram]

10. Overreaching again.

[RhodeIslandOne]

11. LOLOL

"No! WE CAN'T LET THEM KNOW HOW MUCH BETTER LIFE CAN BE AND HOW WRONG WE ARE!!!"

[Cracklin Charlie]

12. Something wrong with people...

Who literally work to cause suffering to other people.

They make me sick, which is likely their objective, after all.

[lark]

14. Fucking "kill all the poor and working class" Repugs.

They love states rights, as long as those states kill their people and use the $$ to give to the rich - like always. Of course, if those states want to actually help their people, well states rights mean not a damn thing in that case.

Is there anything they won't do to hurt our people and economy for their own personal benefit? They are just as craven and evil as Herr Furor.

[KWR65]

16. Conservatives believe in State's Rights except when they don't believe in them

Another hypocrite.

[jmowreader]

17. Senator Kennedy's attention span is shorter than Trump's fingers

The reason we need things like Obamacare, SCHIP, Medicaid, public option and single-payer is the for-profit healthcare model is a disaster. No other country in the world does it this way, and there's a reason for that.

[MyOwnPeace]

38. Just his fingers?

[potone]

19. More Republican states' rights!

Oh, wait...

[Promee]

20. Only GOP states...

get to scream "State's rights!!!!"

[davekriss]

21. what a f**king know-nothing fool!

Republicans as a class are a step backward evolution-wise.

[cynical_idealist]

34. 10

that's ten steps backwards..........

[Plucketeer]

22. If life in the private sector is SO great

Senator - why don't you go there and stop leeching off the federal system? How noble of you to serve for the greater bad of OUR country! Ya giant-ass phony!

[The Wizard]

23. I wonder which lobby

is sending bribes to his off shore money laundry account.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

25. Federalism! NT

[exboyfil]

26. The buying power of California

How long before the other states will want to get in on that action.

[Judi Lynn]

28. Republican Sen. John Kennedy imagines he'd better take control of the nation's health, does he?

Why doesn't he leave that matter up to the people, themselves? Let the people choose.



Sen. John Kennedy with his god.



How lovely to see his lips form a precious little heart!

[CousinIT]

31. 'only way we are going to solve the healthcare problem in America is through the private sector'

Absolutely INCORRECT.

The ONLY way to solve the greed and profit-based healthcare problem in America is through the PUBLIC sector and using the PUBLIC sector's HUGE bargaining power to FORCE reasonable and fair costs for devices, procedures, treatments, and drugs.

[Texin]

40. And, naturally, he's glad to get his healthcare from the private sector: THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS!

This fucking turnipseed should driven out of his district on a tarred and burning rail! These guys are unbelievable. Over and over the same broken record, "the private sector will 'fix it'". Goddamn it! When the fuck did the private sector solve anything except for themselves and their damn directors and investors. The system is corrupt and greedy because they're allowed to run amok and bleed people dry with obscene costs for medications and services. These asshats and their handpicked legislators are nothing but American oligarchs.

[YOHABLO]

32. The U.S. military budget is $824.6 billion for 2018 ! No problem there.

[sinkingfeeling]

33. Same group that constantly argues for 'states flexibility'.

[Initech]

36. These fucking assholes just get worse by the day! Somebody needs to stop them!

[Angry Dragon]

39. a fuck is too good for them

[Texin]

41. The thing that's got me most worried is I'm hearing nary a whimper from the Dems or the press.

It's as if they've been warned off or something. I can't understand how their focus has been so much on single payer that they allowed themselves to be sneaked up on and knocked in the head by this shit. Did they really believe that these assholes were going to give up? For chrissakes! Where the hell are Pelosi and Schumer? Where the hell is Bernie? Are they being held in chains in the Capitol basement?

[King_Klonopin]

44. He isn't worried that a single-payer system would cost the govt more money...

He is terrified that -- given a fair chance -- a single-payer, State-run
health-care system will SUCCEED !!!

If states like CA or MA or VT formed their own "socialist" health-care
system, he knows it will be better run and have higher satisfaction
than our current private, profit-driven insurance system. It would
smash all of their talking-points and lies about single-payer, public
health-care.

[LiberalLovinLug]

45. BINGO!