![]() ![]() They’d have to cover pre-existing conditions.īut, as a patient in South Carolina, you would have a voice you don’t have today. They couldn’t build football stadiums with the money. The state of South Carolina would be in charge of administering Obamacare. Under my proposal, South Carolina would get almost a billion dollars more. ![]() So the debate on healthcare is consolidating all the power in Washington, have some bureaucrat you’ll never meet running this program versus having it centered in the state where you live. If you want good outcomes in medicine you need innovation, and the best way to get innovation is to allow people to try different things to get better outcomes. I think South Carolina may be able to deal with diabetes better and different than California. If it were up to me, we would block grant this money, send it back to the states in a more fair allocation, and we would require pre-existing conditions to be covered as part of the block grant. So I want a better deal, and that’s a political fight. I was on Obamacare for a few years before I got on track here. 30% increase in premiums in South Carolina for those on Obamacare. What else has happened in South Carolina? Four rural hospitals have closed because the revenue streams are uncertain. If you’re going to have money allocated for Obamacare, we’re not going to sit back and quietly let you give 35% of it to three states. So to my friends over there, we’re going to fight back. What does it mean for the people of South Carolina? If you had a per patient formula, where you got the same amount from the federal government to the state whether you lived in Charleston, Columbia, or San Francisco or New York City, if you leveled that out, it’d be almost a billion dollars more for us in South Carolina. Now, why do they get 35% of the money when they are only 22% of the population? That’s the way they designed the law. Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic Senate is from New York, and Massachusetts is Elizabeth Warren. Senator Feinstein’s from California, Nancy Pelosi’s from California. Now, why do we want that? Under the Affordable Care Act, three states get 35% of the money, folks. You know what we want in South Carolina? South Carolina care, not Obamacare. All of you over there want to impose Obamacare on South Carolina. From my point of view, Obamacare has been a disaster for the state of South Carolina. Now, this is Lindsey Graham, the Senator from South Carolina talking. I want to give you my side of the story about Obamacare. All of my colleagues on the other side had very emotional pleas about Obamacare, charts of people with pre-existing conditions. ![]() What I’m going to try to do very briefly this morning is to demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. So yesterday we had a lot of the discussion about the Affordable Health Care Act. So you can relax a bit here, judge, and take your mask off. So I will try, I’ll make sure I stay within 30 minutes for sure, and if I can shorten it up, I will. … 30 minute period today, then come back Wednesday and finish up. ![]()
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