But the Tennessee Governor said this is a gold mine or a Godsend or something like that for Tennessee.

Before being Senator Cassidy, I was Dr. Cassidy, caring for uninsured and Medicaid patients in Louisiana's public hospital system.

That is why they have excluded them from the block grant.

That's why I, with my friend from across the aisle, Senator Collins, have introduced the Lower Premiums Through Reinsurance Act to help States establish their own reinsurance programs.

Obamacare is failing.

First, Missouri has lots more money, because you are a non-expansion State and you would be treated as if you were an expansion State.

The Governors are excited about it. They see this as the ability to implement change that is tailored for their State.

It is in the flexible block grant. States can choose to spend that as they wish.

Nor is there a definition for the word 'and'--a-n-d.

The Graham-Cassidy proposal, even though it does include a short-term reinsurance program, would destabilize the individual market.

We protect those with pre-existing conditions. . . . The protection is absolutely the same.

Senator Cassidy making very clear promises of what he wanted to see in the bill.

funds are quite unequally distributed. Where you live should not determine how healthy you are.

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I have to pick my political battles. I have people who have never read my legislation condemning it.

But in concept, that is a fair statement. A waiver with guardrails, if you will--okay.