Bill Cassidy: Cassidy-Collins Is a ‘Conservative, Federalist Approach’ to Health Care

‘ — gives every state their fair share and allows them to come up with the answer for their state’

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CASSIDY: "Well, the draft plan has now been serious rewrite. And so we don’t know what the serious rewrite — clearly the draft plan is dead. Is the serious rewrite plan dead? I don’t know. I’ve not seen the serious rewrite plan."
WALLACE: "It’s — it’s a heck of a way to do business."
CASSIDY: "It is a heck of a way to do business. By the way, I go back to Cassidy-Collins. The nice thing about Cassidy-Collins — the nice thing about Cassidy-Collins, as you said, it’s a conservative, federalist approach which actually gives the states guidelines, gives every state their fair share, and allows them to come up with the answer for their state. It actually takes that decision-making away from us, returning it to the patients and the state. That’s where we should be.”

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