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Under GOP health care bill, states would struggle to hang onto Obamacare

Experts explain why even states willing to commit far more of their own budgets to the cause will struggle to establish anything close to Obamacare.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), right, and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), back left, are the sponsors of a new health care reform bill.

WASHINGTON — Republican senators are promising that a new health care plan circulating on Capitol Hill will give states wide flexibility to set up an insurance system as robust or as limited as they like.

States that want to cut ties with Obamacare will have that authority; states that want to preserve Obamacare can do so, supporters say.

But experts argue that, given the funding structure proposed in the new plan from Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana — what may amount to the GOP’s

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