The Republican’s latest attempt to repeal the Afordable Care Act would be proposed by Senators from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham and from Louisiana, Bill Cassidy.

The bill will need a simple majority in the Senate, fifty Senators and Vice President Mike Pence. As there are fifty-two Republican Senators, and no Democrat is expected to vote in favour of the bill, it will take only three defecting votes to kill the ACA repeal.

The main points of the bill includes the elimination of the ACA’s individual mandate and employer mandate. The bill will end Medicaid extension and the inherent subsidies to different states. It gives states more options by being able to decline certain regulations put in place by the ACA.

The main problem with the bill is that it keeps in place several taxes and regulations in ObamaCare while doing little to help democrat-controlled states which will most likely opt in for single payer.

Rand Paul would blast the bill, suggesting it does little to lower the costly taxes of ObamaCare while just redistributing the money to different states. He would further mockingly comment “If you like your ObamaCare, you can keep your ObamaCare.”

Of course, this bill is not necessarily the end of what is going to be the ObamaCare repeal. It instead just acts as a starting to point to further eventual changes regarding our HealthCare system.

John McCain would also come out against the Graham-Cassidy Bill by saying it contributes little to the idea of bipartisanship. This is despite many Democrat Senators coming out to say they will not support any Republican attempt to appeal ObamaCare.

And now on Monday, Susan Collins would be the third Republican Senator that has come out to oppose the bill, citing her concerns regarding cuts to the Medicare program and states having the opportunity to turn down certain pre-existing conditions.

So at this point, the latest attempt at ObamaCare repeal is in major danger of not being passed by only a single vote.

Does this mean that there will be no repeal sometime in the future though?

No.

It is very possible a better, more formulated bill will be proposed to be voted on sometime next year right before Midterms. We want repeal and sooner-or-later, we will get it.