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McCains view on the PPACA
Senators reply Letter | 10/8/13 | Senator McCain

Posted on 10/09/2013 8:59:31 AM PDT by Don Corleone

Thank you for contacting me with your views on the health reform legislation passed by Congress in 2010.

Three years after its passage, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) remains one of the most controversial bills ever considered in Congress. While I support improving our health care delivery system to bring down costs and increase access to affordable health insurance, and have put forth several detailed proposals, the PPACA is not the answer. As written, this legislation would lead to higher health care costs, increased taxes, trillions of dollars in new federal spending, $715 billion in cuts to Medicare, and more expensive health insurance.

Despite the President’s repeated claims to the contrary, the new unsustainable entitlement created by PPACA will add to the deficit, undermine America’s global leadership in health care innovation and quality of care, and put the federal government in charge of writing the health insurance policies that individuals and employers are mandated to purchase.

I believe we need to repeal the new health care law and replace it with common sense reforms that will drive down the cost of care while improving accessibility to affordable health insurance coverage.

This can be achieved by increasing choice and competition by allowing individuals to purchase insurance policies across state lines, enacting medical malpractice reform, focusing on prevention and incentivizing wellness programs, and establishing affordable coverage mechanisms for individuals with high-risk and preexisting conditions.

I oppose the PPACA. I always have and I always will. I have done, and will continue to do, everything I can to see that it is repealed and replaced. Which is why on September 27, 2013, I voted to invoke cloture and end debate on the House-passed H. J. Res. 59, the Continuing Resolution for Fiscal Year 2014 (C.R.), which would defund PPACA. On that same day, I voted against Reid Amendment #1974 that removed the PPACA provisions from the C.R. Because of the passage of this amendment, I voted against final passage of the C.R. Ultimately, H. J. Res. 59 passed in the Senate, 54-44. While I will continue to work to prevent the implementation of PPACA, I do not believe a government shutdown is the proper course of action because it risks disrupting key government functions on which millions of Americans rely.

The fact is that the votes do not exist in the Senate to defund the PPACA at this time, nor the 67 votes needed to overcome a Presidential veto, which is a certainty. The fight against the PPCA is one I’ve fought for years. I’ll take seat second to no one in my efforts to oppose that law but pursuing a tactic that would trigger a government shutdown is unacceptable.

I will continue my efforts to replace the unsustainable health reform law that was forced through Congress with reforms based on competition and freedom rather than the expansion of the federal bureaucracy.

Thank you again for writing to me. Please feel free to contact me if you have any other comments or questions.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: collaborator; repeal
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At last one of his interns deigned to answer.
1 posted on 10/09/2013 8:59:31 AM PDT by Don Corleone
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To: Don Corleone

The PPACA is not the answer... call that the understatement of the century.


2 posted on 10/09/2013 9:01:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Don Corleone

3 posted on 10/09/2013 9:08:40 AM PDT by JPG (Putin Does Obama.)
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To: Don Corleone
Nice words but he does not stand very straight in the wind. I fully expect him to topple.

4 posted on 10/09/2013 9:09:24 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Don Corleone

Total BS....as Hanoi John McQaeda voted for Cloiture to allow the Dems to kill the ObamaCare defunding. McQaeda supports ObamaCare


5 posted on 10/09/2013 9:13:31 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Fact Is: GOPe want ObamaCare.)
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To: Don Corleone

Bullshots. If he really opposed Husseincare, he’d be helping Cruz stop it instead of slandering him to the Marxist press.


6 posted on 10/09/2013 9:14:32 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Don Corleone

Everytime I see a McCain headline I have to look like I have to look at a car wreck. But with McCain I always hope there is one serious injury.


7 posted on 10/09/2013 9:21:01 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Don Corleone

His vote to invoke cloture was the reason Cruz failed. He’s a shmuck.


8 posted on 10/09/2013 9:26:05 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Government: Slimy used car salesmen writing laws forcing you to buy their cars)
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To: Don Corleone

Cleary written by someone (McCain or a low level staffer) who has no understanding of why Obama Care really sucks.....what a non statement...


9 posted on 10/09/2013 9:27:18 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Don Corleone

What a crock.. McCain carries a jar of vaseline in his pocket for every encounter he has with a Democrat...


10 posted on 10/09/2013 9:27:31 AM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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"I will continue my efforts to replace the unsustainable health reform law that was forced through Congress"

Liar, his efforts are below zer0 to date.

11 posted on 10/09/2013 9:31:09 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Don Corleone

McQueeg defines the “typical politician.” Didn’t answer your question, instead talks past you and answers the question he wants to answer. You don’t say what you asked, but I’ll bet it has something to do with defunding Obastardcare, which he has repeatedly said he is *not* for (defunding).

Instead he repeats the tired platitudes about repealing the law. Hey McQueeg! That’s not on the table at the moment! Defunding it is!


12 posted on 10/09/2013 9:32:54 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: Don Corleone
You blew it McNut. Bad mouth Cruz was you biggest mistake. Past votes when it was needed show us that you are a RINO. We are so deep into communism and I can see no real support to eliminate it. You are too friendly with King Obama for my comfort.
13 posted on 10/09/2013 9:35:23 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Cyber Liberty

Those who oppose defunding are very likely not wanting to repeal it either


14 posted on 10/09/2013 9:38:47 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Don Corleone; All

It is easy to recognize the obvious PONZI SCHEME called Obamacare.

Obamacare has nothing to do with health, care, or medicine.

Obamacare has EVERYTHING to do with insurance.

Obamacare is a Federal Insurance Monopoly.

Obamacare is in violation of US Anti-Trust Laws.

Obamacare is a Federal Insurance Premium Collection Agency, aka FIPCA for Obamacare.

We CONSERVATIVES know that there will be other future Federal Insurance Ponzi Schemes, right down to the Insurance Premium collected for the inhaling of the EPA ruled toxic gas CO2.

Then FIPCA will be there to collect that CO2 Insurance premium from all citizens.

But I digress, so let us focus on the present.

If Boehner Caves In to the Court of Public Opinion, which is run by the Low Information Liberal “Mainstream” Media, and Obamacare is funded, Obama can then raise every year or quarter his Obamacare insurance premiums as high as he wants to, and the sorry US Congress can’t do anything about it.

Congress will thus be bypassed, and will no longer be needed in the future to fund the vote buying schemes of the social engineering POTUS.

Could Boehner be stupid enough to come up with his own Boehnercare Ponzi Scheme?
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Compliance with Obamacare violates Doctor Patient Confidentiality.

Obamacare is in violation of the Doctors Hippocratic Oath as follows:

” - - - All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal. - - - “

Another line of legal reasoning involves comparing Obamacare to all the do’s and don’ts the Federal Government has put into Law about our “privacy rights” such as HIPPA, questions that future employers can and cannot ask at one’s job interview, etc.

A criminal at arrest time has the “right to remain silent” which is not an option for any of us - - - , as our Doctors have been forced by the damn Federal Government to betray us over our very loud protests.

Class Action Law Suit anyone?

Might be something for Senators Cruz and Lee to file on our behalf ?!
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Here are a few “settled” facts:

* Since Obamacare was re-written by the SCOTUS, it is not the same bill that both Houses of Congress voted on, or Obama signed into Law.

* Therefore, until the changes have acheived “The Advice and Consent of Congress,” the revised law is invalid, by standards set forth in the US Constitution and the rules of both Houses of Congress.

* In effect, Traitor John Roberts voided the same Law that he tried to save.


15 posted on 10/09/2013 9:39:24 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Marxist Obama'care' Insurance violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: GeronL
Correct. IOW (this may come as a bit of a shock to some, so I recommend sitting down for a moment), McQueeg is LYING through his teeth.

How can I verify this for sure? This is an email to a constituent (according to the OP's profile, he's an Arizonan). We're the first in line when it comes to being told lies by McQueeg.

16 posted on 10/09/2013 9:45:40 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: Don Corleone

IOW, he’s “personally opposed” but even more strongly opposed to doing anything to get rid of it.

McCain is a coward and a collaborator, and he always was.


17 posted on 10/09/2013 9:49:40 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

bump


18 posted on 10/09/2013 9:50:15 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Don Corleone

I got his letter today... I urinated on it and burned it.


19 posted on 10/09/2013 9:50:27 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Don Corleone

This duplicitous, age-baked turd is loyal to the Senate, even if that means rolling over for Obamacare, and he would rather let it destroy this country, than stand up to the Senate fools who have his allegiance.


20 posted on 10/09/2013 9:52:19 AM PDT by pallis
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