BREAKING! Susan Collins is a NO on Graham-Cassidy repeal, blames CBO…

More bad news for Obamacare opponents. The last ditch effort by Graham-Cassidy is basically dead after Senator Susan Collins announced she’ll be voting no.

“Health care is a deeply personal, complex issue that affects every single one of us and one-sixth of the American economy. Sweeping reforms to our health care system and to Medicaid can’t be done well in a compressed time frame, especially when the actual bill is a moving target. Today, we find out that there is now a fourth version of the Graham-Cassidy proposal, which is as deeply flawed as the previous iterations. The fact that a new version of this bill was released the very week we are supposed to vote compounds the problem.

“I have three major concerns with both the proposal that we were discussing last week and the newest version that was put together this weekend:

“First, both proposals make sweeping changes and cuts in the Medicaid program. Expert projections show that more than $1 trillion would be taken out of the Medicaid program between the years 2020 and 2036. This would have a devastating impact to a program that has been on the books for 50 years and provides health care to our most vulnerable citizens, including disabled children and low-income seniors.

Read the rest here.

She’s blaming the CBO report that just came out.

And she says she ain’t the only one:

Of course, literal Democrat mouthpiece Jimmy Kimmel thanked her on twitter:

I’m betting Chuck Schumer wrote that tweet for him…


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