Posted on 07/28/2017 9:53:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sen. John McCain offered an explanation Friday for why he joined Democrats and two of his Republican colleagues in voting against the “skinny” repeal of Obamacare, saying he did not believe it would “actually reform our health care system.”
"While the amendment would have repealed some of Obamacare’s most burdensome regulations, it offered no replacement to actually reform our health care system and deliver affordable, quality health care to our citizens,” McCain said in a statement.
"The Speaker's statement that the House would be ‘willing’ to go to conference does not ease my concern that this shell of a bill could be taken up and passed at any time," he added.
McCain, who came back to Washington this week after surgery related to his brain cancer diagnosis, cast the deciding vote against the legislation. He joined Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski in opposing the bill.
Ahead of the vote he did not reveal his intentions, only telling reporters to “wait for the show.”
The Arizona senator said he opposed one of the “major failures” of Obamacare, which was that it was “rammed through Congress by Democrats on a strict-party line basis without a single Republican vote.”
He did not feel it was right for Republicans to do the same.
“We should not make the mistakes of the past that has led to Obamacare’s collapse, including in my home state of Arizona where premiums are skyrocketing and health care providers are fleeing the marketplace,” McCain said.
“We must now return to the correct way of legislating and send the bill back to committee, hold hearings, receive input from both sides of aisle, heed the recommendations of nation’s governors, and produce a bill that finally delivers affordable health care for the American people.”
McCain’s top priority in whatever he does is McCain.
“actually reform our health care system.”
Lame excuse.
We’d all like world peace, too but it that isn’t going to happen either. So we do what we can and them move to the next step.
It is just an excuse.
Idiot.
Who really cares about why he betrayed us? He’s been a traitor for a long time. He needs to go, the sooner the better.
Congress does not want a new Health Care bill passed because it would stop the funding efforts for both the Democrats and Republicans. They have had all of the time and ability to repeal and replace, but refuse to do so. McCain was offered as a sacrifice because all of the others can go back to their constituents and ‘blame it’ on McCain, while asking for more money. The Alaskan and Maine Senators are really Democrat, so their lack of support meant nothing.
McCain is EXEMPT from Obamacare, and HE WOULD STILL BE IN THE HOSPITAL IF HE HAD OBAMACARE.
McCain just committed political suicide. His loyalty to the Deep State just ended his career.
“I’m a democrat, that’s why.”
Because he is a POS?
He will not be missed
He will not be missed!
Republicans need to drop this immediately and ever republican senator need to say they tried. They also need to vote against any appropriation bill to bail out the insurance companies and any increase to Medicaid. Only give the states whatever they got last year.
Just let it crash. Nobody will die, just let it die and tell everyone that The Lyin’ of the Senate” know best
McCain is EXEMPT from Obamacare, and HE WOULD STILL BE IN THE HOSPITAL IF HE HAD OBAMACARE.
McCain just committed political suicide. His loyalty to the Deep State just ended his career.
He will not be missed!
McCain can now take Obamacare to his coffin with him.
The only real question is which one will die first.
“The Arizona senator said he opposed one of the ‘major failures’ of Obamacare, which was that it was ‘rammed through Congress by Democrats on a strict-party line basis without a single Republican vote.’”
Schumer and Pelosi have managed to keep their troops in-line.
We shouldn’t expect Democratic defections, nor should McCain.
I want the stinking PPACA trash in the history dumpster.
Republicans were given the mandate to get the job done all by themselves.
Here’s REALLY why McCain voted as he did:
He is a warmongering globalist Big Government Establishmentarian Traitor who hates us American peasants.
Huh? The Charlie Gard Death Panel would have announced "You're an old geezer and aren' going to live long, so take the red pill. We need to use our limited health care resources on a younger model who has years to live. Sorry, John. Best wishes for your speedy demise."
McCain is petty, vindictive, vengeful, and butt hurt because he wasn’t, isn’t, and never will be POTUS. He should retire an address his health issues as best he can; and officially declare himself a demonrat....
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