Graham Cassidy Bill Blasted By Doctors Insurance Groups

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Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
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Republicans' newest effort to overhaul the US healthcare system in the Senate has received significant backlash from doctors, patients, and insurers.

The Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson
bill was released last week as a desperate attempt to pass a bill before the end of the month, after which the Senate would need 60 votes move any healthcare legislation. Republicans control 52 seats in the Senate.

The bill would set up federal funding in block grants, which states would use to fund healthcare. That's different from how funding is distributed now, as a percentage of what states spend, and it could drastically change what states receive
. 

Since its release, more than 20 groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have come out in opposition to the bill, citing how it handles Medicaid and the potential implications it would have on people with preexisting conditions.  

Here's what the groups thought of the bill
The American Medical Association
, the biggest group of doctors in the US, said the bill went against the Hippocratic Oath, the pledge doctors take before they practice le prix cialis medicine.