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Opinion in Brief

Tony Perkins: "Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) think they have the answer to the $3 trillion failure that's destroying lives, spiking costs, and crushing freedom. Under their measure, which relies heavily on block grants, states would have the autonomy to design their own health care plans. 'One of the most interesting reforms in Graham-Cassidy,' Forbes explains, 'is that, over time, it ends a significant bias in the Medicaid program toward wealthy states like California, Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland. Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal government and the states; on average, Washington foots about 60 percent of the bill. In theory, the federal government is supposed to foot higher proportions of the bill for poorer states; but because the minimum match is set to 50 percent, a number of very wealthy states receive a lot more money than they should.' It would scrap Obamacare's individual (and unconstitutional) insurance mandate, a lot of its burdensome taxes, and, most importantly, a major funding stream to Planned Parenthood. ... With just two weeks to cycle the bill through the House and Senate, the GOP's biggest enemy may be the calendar. ... Did the American people elect leaders who keep their word — or politicians who make empty promises to win? In 11 days, we'll know."