McCain Throws Support Behind Graham-Cassidy Obamacare Repeal Effort

talkingpointsmemo.com ^ | 9/6/17 | Matt Shuham

[cotton1706]

I despise McCain more than anyone else, but this is actually good news.

This is the bill that Rick Santorum, Scott Walker and the Freedom Caucus have been working on. If momentum can build on this, it can get through the Senate.

[Fantasywriter]

Does it eliminate the mandates?

[Skywise]

Why wasn’t this bill brought up originally?!

[cotton1706]

This article says that it does repeal the mandates.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/6/16263316/cassidy-graham-mccain-obamacare-repeal

“But Cassidy-Graham also ends the two policies that are meant to bring healthy people into the marketplace: the mandate to purchase coverage and the tax subsidies to make coverage affordable.”

[Fantasywriter]

Thank you. I did click on that article, but I despaired of ever finding the answer. They buried it deep in the details. They must not understand how much the mandates are hated.

[boycott]

Will the Freedom Cacus get on board? If so, there is a chance. If they’re not on board, neither am I.

[Cen-Tejas]

................ditto except I would add “TRUMP” too!

But, I imagine that if the FC is for it so would Trump be.

[Ancesthntr]

Want to see McLame get pissed off? Watch Trump tweet tonight that he loves the bill. :>)

[wardamneagle]

Good question to ask Graham after 7 years of bitchin.

[t4texas]

They’d better have something they can vote through......or Trump will rub their noses in it.

[Artemis Webb]

"Does it eliminate the mandates?"

It doesn't matter. Trump ordered the IRS not to enforce the mandates.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I wish McCain would throw an embolism.

[fungoking]

What's the expiration date on this statement?

[Fantasywriter]

Thank you AW. That is helpful information.

[faithhopecharity]

perhaps McShame only voted against repeal in order to express his anger that DJT and not McShame is President

maybe he really WILL vote for repeal, after all

i doubt he has any real principles anyway, so...?

[Logical me]

Even if the bill was ready, McConnell and Ryan would not let it on the floor. McConnell and Ryan are not RINOs but communists Democrats and rotten garbage. They both must be voted by both parties out of leadership.

[Monorprise]

Pass it.

[Monorprise]

He needs to get rid of Obamacare this needs to be top priority. If McCain can’t do it he needs to resign and let the republican Arizona governor appoint an honest republican in his place.

[faithhopecharity]

It sure would be a wonderful opportunity to replace McShame!

and maybe we can find a good replacement for that other flaky guy there, too?

[usconservative]

It doesn't matter. Trump ordered the IRS not to enforce the mandates.

It'll matter in 2020 if a Democrat President manages to get elected. The mandates must be repealed.