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Senator McCain says Republican healthcare bill likely dead
reuters ^ | 7/8/17 | Yasmeen Abutaleb

Posted on 07/09/2017 11:43:20 AM PDT by ColdOne

A senior U.S. Republican senator predicted on Sunday that the Republican bill to roll back Obamacare would likely fail, adding to growing signs that the bill is in trouble.

"My view is that it's probably going to be dead," Senator John McCain, a senior U.S. Republican, said on the CBS program, "Face the Nation."

The Senate bill, which faces unified Democratic opposition, has been further imperiled during a week-long recess where several Republican senators have had to return to their states and face constituents strongly opposed to the bill. Senators return to Washington on Monday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aca; ahca; mitchcare; obamacare; obamacare2; repeal; winning
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Make all of congress have obamacare and see how fast they would repeal it.
1 posted on 07/09/2017 11:43:20 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne
Make all of congress have obamacare and see how fast they would repeal it.

Boom! There ya go.

I get the feeling President Trump has a FReeper lurker in his inner circle.

Yo, lurker, have President Trump push for a bill that require Congresscritters to subscribe to Obamacare.

2 posted on 07/09/2017 11:47:18 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ColdOne

The only thing dead is McCain’s reputation but that died years ago. He can”t follow it soon enough.


3 posted on 07/09/2017 11:50:15 AM PDT by ZULU (DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: ColdOne

It died when McConnell began talking about a bipartisan health care bill with the Democrats.

GOP has given up on repeal.


4 posted on 07/09/2017 11:55:50 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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It died when McConnell began talking about a bipartisan health care bill with the Democrats.

GOP has given up on repeal.


5 posted on 07/09/2017 11:59:18 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: ColdOne

what part of “REPEAL IT!” can’t McShame understand?


6 posted on 07/09/2017 11:59:52 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: ColdOne

Senator John McCain, reliable old junkyard dog, protecting the low-value and largely un-recyclable debris of a bygone glory. There is NOTHING worthwhile to salvage from this monstrosity known as “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010”, and even the Obama regime would not enforce large parts of it, except, of course, to collect the taxes mandated by its language. At best, the ACA was “feel-good” legislation passed to assuage some perceived need for an additional entitlement, but ended up being the worst form of a narcotic, with evil side effects and an entanglement into things far removed from treatment of medical disorders.

There is a notion that an entitlement, once set into law, cannot be repealed or reduced in any manner, but that way lies madness. ANY law may be repealed, and the cost is far less than the doomsayers claim it would be. Think of repeal as a HUGE tax cut all across the board. benefiting even those who believe they have a total dependence on its preservation. There are vast resources to reach every one of those “exceptions”, and to just provide a blanket for everybody for the benefit of only a small number, is the very worst example of “throwing money at a problem”, when in fact a problem may not even exist.


7 posted on 07/09/2017 12:02:08 PM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between Illinois and Venezuela, is that toilet tissue is still available in Illinois.)
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To: ColdOne

Yo! Juan!

Go away and take Flake with you.


8 posted on 07/09/2017 12:38:45 PM PDT by x1stcav (White. Male. Unreconstructed. Never owned a slave.)
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To: ColdOne

False party is false.


9 posted on 07/09/2017 12:45:28 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: ColdOne
I agree with you on that, and IMHO let bamicare burn in flames, let everyone go a year without insurance, the insurance companies would be begging for money and that includes the drug companies...

Course it would hurt us, no insurance, but on the other hand, what are they going to do, shut down all the hospitals, doctor offices, drug stores???

Yeah about two months in, people would start yelling their heads off...then comes the plan that President Trump wants, and we could finally get the government out of our health care...on to the next project...

10 posted on 07/09/2017 12:50:13 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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Ditto, and he can take McConnell and Collins with him.


11 posted on 07/09/2017 12:56:44 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Too bad McShamey hasn’t died


12 posted on 07/09/2017 1:03:30 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the fire on the Carrier Forestall on which Mc Cain was preparing to take off. He had a “wet start” which seems to have started the fire.
13 posted on 07/09/2017 1:14:25 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Nifster

Some loser repub admitted they had nothing prepared because they didn’t think President Trump would win the election. Lazy a**es...typical government “worker”. Also, they promised to appeal nobamacare. I guess they like being LIARS. Pathetic.


14 posted on 07/09/2017 1:15:27 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: ColdOne

Dang, I read the headline too fast. Senator McCain... likely dead. I guess RIP wouldn’t be appropriate yet.


15 posted on 07/09/2017 1:18:07 PM PDT by Yaelle
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Make all of congress have obamacare and see how fast they would repeal it.

If Congress was on Obamacare then they'd sink tons of money into it to get it to work.

16 posted on 07/09/2017 1:27:08 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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MCCAIN and other ANTI-TRUMPERS may think they are hurting PRESIDENT TRUMP by their inactivity, but there will be a day of reckoning for them in 2018.


17 posted on 07/09/2017 1:33:41 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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Have y’all noticed how the GOP only cares about pleasing RATs? They don’t care about the people that voted for them.

Those scum in the GOP know those jackasses at their “townhalls” are RATs, but they think we are too dumb to know that.


18 posted on 07/09/2017 1:40:44 PM PDT by dforest
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Lurkinanloomin says McCain likely traitor.


19 posted on 07/09/2017 1:41:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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GOP has given up on repeal.

Do you really believe they ever meant it? I don't and never did.

20 posted on 07/09/2017 1:44:25 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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