Republican senators meet with White House to discuss new health-care proposal

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published 31 July 2017

President Trump is set to decide "this week" whether or not to allow ObamaCare to implode, even as Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) have quietly been working on a new health-care proposal for their divided party, Politico reports.

The lawmakers, along with Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), spoke with the president Friday about the proposal. Cassidy is expected to meet Monday with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price about the plan. The so-called Cassidy-Graham proposal "seeks to keep most of ObamaCare's taxes except the medical device tax, send federal health-care funds to the states in block grants, kill ObamaCare's individual mandate, and maintain the requirement to cover people with pre-existing conditions," Politico writes.

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.

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