Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana are scheduled to debate Independent and Democratic Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota over the future of health care in America.
CNN is hosting a town hall on Monday Sept. 25 for both pairs of senators to debate their proposals to reform the U.S. health care system before a live television audience.
Graham and Cassidy, along with Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada and Ron Johnson Wisconsin, are pushing a bill that would repeal major portions of Obamacare and replace the system’s funding mechanism with block grants in an attempt, according to the senators, to promote state innovation in the implementation of health care.
Sanders, along with 16 Democrat co-sponsors, released a bill, known as “Medicare-For-All,” in mid-September that would transform Medicare into a single-payer health care system.
The Medicare-For-All bill would expand Medicare into a national health insurance program, making every American citizen, including the 28 million who don’t have health insurance under Obamacare, eligible for the program. While the bill wouldn’t come into full effect for four years, it would allow children under the age of 18 to participate within the first year of its enactment.
SEN. BILL CASSIDY (R-LA) ADDRESSES JIMMY KIMMEL’S STATEMENT ABOUT CASSIDY-GRAHAM BILL:
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