With the Graham-Cassidy bill to partially repeal Obamacare and reconfigure government health care, the Republican Congress has an opportunity to do what they promised and prove to voters they're not totally dysfunctional.  As many have said, the bill is not perfect, nor is it complete.  But no bill could be.  Neither Obamacare nor Graham-Cassidy addresses the looming problems in health care.  The feds are spending more than $1 trillion a year on Medicaid and Medicare.  If Congress is to get any control over spending, they will have to "adjust" those two huge programs regardless of what happens to Obamacare.  That means Congress will need to revisit health care again and again. In CMS's "2016 Actuarial Report on the Financial Outlook for Medicaid," we read on page 16: Total Medicaid expenditures (Federal and State combined) for medical assistance payments and administration are estimated to have grown 4.3 percent in 2016...(Read Full Post)