McCain did not hurt anything by this vote, much as he might have intended. Had the bill passed and been signed, it would have eliminated a source of funding for the system without eliminating the system and would have provided the excuse for the Republicans to join en masse the Democrats to pass Single Payer as the bastardized obamacare would fail totally very obviously and rapidly. The Republicans are trying consciously to socialize medicine and thus the nation totally and McCain in his loyalty to what he thinks is the spirit of the Olympian Obama shot it down.
If the rino’s indeed have control of the senate and congress, they certainly haven’t demonstrated any such “control”.
I would love to see a “recall” promotion against a number of those “government freeloaders”, they certainly have not demonstrated any good reason to keep them in Washington as representatives of the people.