After seven years of talking and more than 50 efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, all eyes had been on a September 30 deadline to push through health care reform using a special procedure to avoid a filibuster. However, late Tuesday, Senate Republicans said they would not vote this week on the latest effort to overturn the law.
The latest effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, known as the Graham-Cassidy legislation, would have implemented a block grant program to the states, allowing leeway to determine how funding is spent. It’s an effort supported by Governor Asa Hutchinson and the Arkansas federal delegation.
In a recent visit to Baxter County, Third District Congressman Rick Crawford says he would like to see the debate shift back to a 2009 environment where we can re-address how we want to move forward on healthcare.
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Beyond the impact on individuals, Congressman Crawford says the medical community is weighing in on possible changes.
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But the fourth term Congressman says the argument is not about healthcare.
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Crawford says we’re also seeing people fundamentally altering they way in which they visit their doctor.
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Crawford says the trend in delaying treatment is another aspect of having an insurance card instead of obtaining healthcare that many are not talking about.
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