We call that hogwash in South Carolina.

In South Carolina, that is a very important issue. In 2014, we had nine insurers in the individual market.

The reality is that we are doing the same thing in this bill as we did in 1996.

Medicaid is on an unsustainable path.

My goal is to get the money and power out of Washington, closer to where people live so they will have a voice about the most important thing in their life.

This dangerous legislation uses per capita caps to deeply cut and radically restructure the traditional Medicaid program.

It will also harm--and in some cases pose life-threatening harm--to the 23 million people projected to be covered.

Across the country, the situation is no better. Next year, it is expected that 45 percent of all counties in America will have either one or no carriers offering coverage.

We repeal the individual mandate and the employer mandate, but you can reimpose it in your State if you like.

If you do not like the health care you have, you can complain to somebody you vote for: 'The model you have created is never going to work.'

The proposal we have advanced has been called radical today.

We can either go forward with the single-payer option, which the other side of the aisle seems to favor.

The individual mandate had no significant effect on coverage in 2014.

It should not be how many people we are getting into a government program, but how much affordable insurance we are providing.

Premiums are growing at unsustainable rates; insurers are fleeing exchanges and dropping coverage, and patients across the country are in many cases down to a few, or in some cases zero options to purchase coverage.

In my State of South Carolina, we are down to one carrier offering coverage in the exchange.

Premiums are set to rise over 30% in South Carolina next year alone.

We urge the Senate to reject Graham-Cassidy.