There are many reasons to despise the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare Repeal Bill. The myriad of reasons have been uncovered and discussed by experts and diarists on this site. Now the authors of this abomination are trying to buy the vote of Lisa Murkowski by reserving Obamacare for her state, while making the other 49 states suffer the consequences if this ghastly policy is implemented. In addition to being despicable, there is solid ground for questioning the constitutionality of the Graham-Cassidy bill. Jonathan Chait explains the case in his article for New York Magazine:
Aside from both the political ethics in general and what this reveals about the Republican argument about repealing Obamacare in particular (i.e., it exposes the notion that other states will be unharmed by its cuts), this maneuver may well be unconstitutional.
Georgetown law professor Brian Galle explains that the Constitution has a uniformity clause — Article I, section 8 of the Constitution says “all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.” The purpose of the clause is to prevent coalitions of states from ganging up on others to impose discriminatory treatment.
So this bill is despicable, discriminatory and unconstitutional. Even if it does pass, there are grounds for states to sue if the bill is signed into law.
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