Rick Santorum hands GOP plan for backdoor repeal of Obamacare by stealing money from large Dem state

[mac56]

Source: Rawstory

Former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum revealed this week that he has been working on a plan to effectively repeal Obamacare by stripping money from four Democratic states.

In an interview with Breitbart, Santorum said that he had been collaborating with Republican lawmakers to craft legislation that would block grant health care funds directly to the states, creating winners in red states and losers in blue states.

In short, this is the last chance for a healthcare bill to pass, and this is the best idea thats been floated yet, Santorum opined. Winston Churchill said that America does the right thing after they have tried everything first.

According to Breitbart, Santorum has partnered with establishment Republicans like Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA). He has also made inroads with more conservative lawmakers in the House and GOP governors throughout the country, the former senator said.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/rick-santorum-hands-gop-plan-for-backdoor-repeal-of-obamacare-by-stealing-money-from-large-dem-states/

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That Santorum sure is slippery.

[FM123]

1. What a snake!

[Control-Z]

2. K&R

for exposure. The little fucker.

[Angry Dragon]

3. From the man who stole education money from Pennsylvania while his kids went to school in Virginia

[Ford_Prefect]

4. Instead of regulating the costs they want to penalize those in need no matter where they live.

Their underlying assumption is that NO ONE should have health care unless they personally pay the medical industry thieves for it. If you ask them why essential medicines and access to care are so much more expensive HERE than any other country they tell you to stop malingering and pay up.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I hate him. I can't watch Bill Maher when he is on.

[cstanleytech]

6. I thought that was illegal?

[FakeNoose]

7. Santorum always was a weasel

But this plan is not going to work - and it's probably unconstitutional.

His 15 minutes are so over, he'll never be re-elected in PA.

[Maraya1969]

14. Thank you for say this. I immediately thought that it had to be illegal.

[lastlib]

25. That is highly insulting to the Mustelidae family!

Weasels are noble beasts compared to that pond-scum FrothyMix!

I. Fcking. Hate. Santorum! with a steaming, boiling, seething passion!

[FakeNoose]

26. Yeah I think he's just trying to weasel some money

...out of the Koch brothers or somebody else that's giving it away to conservative nutjobs.

I agree, Santorum is the worst. He's originally from Butler PA, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. He's been messing up our state for far too long. I hope he stays in Virginia for good.

[Jopin Klobe]

8. Look, there's Ricky ...

... standing over there in that crowd ...

... with the swastikas ...

[bronxiteforever]

9. Kick for visibility of this evil

[MyOwnPeace]

10. "Santorum" and "backdoor" ..............

in the same sentence:

[BBG]

19. Snortle!

A snorting chortle. Nice catch.

[procon]

11. Yeah, Rick, that's the way to do it, because its all about keeping Republicans

in power, right? To hell with all the people in blue states, including Republican voters, they don't need healthcare as much as your party needs a win at any cost.

[aaaaaa5a]

12. Red states vs Blue states....

I know Santorum loves red states. So could someone please remind him what states are "welfare" states and what states are "donor" states when it comes to federal funding?

[Jim Lane]

18. A question completely off-topic to this thread....

Why are North Dakota (#50) and South Dakota (#4) so far apart? I always thought they were very similar. In fact, I would have guessed them to be the two states that were the most alike on a wide variety of metrics.

Does anyone have a guess about what explains the disparity here?

[FakeNoose]

27. Yeah I think these numbers are little bit off

For example I think West Virginia should be up closer to number 1 now. (Maybe in the top 10 anyway).
The difference between North and South Dakota is puzzling.

But I see the point, that the states lower down the list are paying taxes to the government, while the states higher on the list are taking welfare from the government. (This is unrelated to Obamacare trending because these numbers are from 2013.) And that is ably demonstrated here.

Santorum is completely full of shit, but we already knew that.

[farmbo]

28. Possibly the Lakota Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge, SD.

Pine Ridge is one of the (if not the) largest reservations in the country. Pine Ridge residents face a staggering array of economic challenges.

[meadowlander]

31. North Dakota has a booming extraction industry,

particularly fracking and shale oil. I imagine they contribute a huge amount in federal taxes as a result and that offsets the aid they receive. I think South Dakota is more rural and receives more farm subsidies.

[gfwzig]

13. Anything sponsored by santourum (Google it) (go ahead I dare ya') has to be bad

[red dog 1]

15. Swamp-rat Santorum: "All we're doing is draining the swamp"

It's entirely possible that the GOP-controlled House may go along with this truly evil plan - they hate Obamacare.

But can The Turtle get enough votes in the Senate for this piece of shit proposal?

[briv1016]

16. So instead of expanding Medicaid in the 19 red states that haven't and getting the feds to cover 90%

of the cost, they want to take away money from blue states to "balance the funding?" The only reason four states with 21% of the population gets 40% of the funding is because those 19 states refuse to accept the money allocates to them.

[lordsummerisle]

17. k&r n/t

[ck4829]

20. Remember, this is Trumpcare

[McCamy Taylor]

21. But then the Blue States wont pay their taxes. And Blue States fund the fed.

This plan makes no sense.

[Doug the Dem]

22. What a POS

Literally!

[davsand]

23. Santorum. It's in the Urban Dictionary for a reason.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=santorum&page=2




Laura

[Honeycombe8]

24. Yet in all those discussions and planning, I bet not one word about helping people with HC.

This is NOT a healthcare bill. It's a bill to try to remove a healthcare bill.

[Judi Lynn]

30. He has always been such a repulsive clown. Not one decent bone in his moist, clammy body.

He can't accept the fact that people can't stand him.