Lindsey Graham

The Graham-Cassidy proposal would create new and far-reaching risks for people, States and the health-care system.

Health care in the United States is in the throes of an unrelenting tailspin. Thrust upon us on Christmas Eve in 2009, Obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster.

It puts coverage at risk for virtually every group of individuals covered through 'traditional' Medicaid.

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.

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

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

We urge the Senate to reject Graham-Cassidy.

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

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

The proposal we have advanced has been called radical today.

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.'

Medicaid is on an unsustainable path.

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

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

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

And to my friends to the left, I will do everything I can to stop and put a stake in the heart of single-payer health care.

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.

I am here because Obamacare is a disaster in my State.

The Affordable Care Act is not working.

The Medicaid per-cap cap ties the per-capita rate of growth of Medicaid at around the level of medical inflation.

Everybody opposing this bill is a big winner of Obamacare.

We are going to send this money back to the States. You cannot spend it on roads and bridges; you have to spend it on health care.

If somebody does not fix Obamacare soon, the majority of counties in this country are going to be down to one provider.

Every question of his credibility, every time they change their story, it makes us not believe them in the future here.

The skinny bill is a replacement for Obamacare is a fraud.