--- title: Susan Collins Won't Support Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill description: Maine Senator Susan Collins said she will vote against the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, becoming the third GOP Senator to oppose it canonical: https://time.com/4956657/susan-collins-health-care-bill-graham-cassidy/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-25T22:30:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:35:27.431Z article:section: Politics og:title: Sen. Susan Collins Won't Support the GOP's Obamacare Repeal Bill og:description: She called the bill "deeply flawed" og:url: https://time.com/4956657/susan-collins-health-care-bill-graham-cassidy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d3172e0e1291cc9/6988df500a4a2214679d0105/susan-collins-republican-last-ditched-effort-repeal-obamacare.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: susan-collins-republican-last-ditched-effort-repeal-obamacare og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sen. Susan Collins Won't Support the GOP's Obamacare Repeal Bill twitter:description: She called the bill "deeply flawed" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d3172e0e1291cc9/6988df500a4a2214679d0105/susan-collins-republican-last-ditched-effort-repeal-obamacare.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sen. Susan Collins Won't Support the GOP's Obamacare Repeal Bill  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Sep 25, 2017 10:30 PM UTC  Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, speaks to members of the media in the basement of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, speaks to members of the media in the basement of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017.Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Sep 25, 2017 10:30 PM UTC Maine Senator Susan Collins said Monday that she will vote against the [Graham-Cassidy health care bill](http://time.com/4951982/graham-cassidy-cbo-score-obamacare/), becoming the [third Republican Senator](http://time.com/4955791/graham-cassidy-republican-mccain/) to oppose the latest effort to [repeal the Affordable Care Act](http://time.com/4956397/graham-cassidy-republican-health-care-protests/). “Today, we find out that there is now a fourth version of the Graham-Cassidy proposal, which is as deeply flawed as the previous iterations,” she said in a statement on Monday. “The fact that a new version of this bill was released the very week we are supposed to vote compounds the problem.” The Congressional Budget Office said Monday that the latest version of the bill would reduce insurance coverage for “millions,” the Associated Press reported. 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