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"While the amendment would have repealed some of Obamacare’s most burdensome regulations, it offered no replacement to actually reform our health care system and deliver affordable, quality health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.”
It’s not his job or the government’s job to deliver healthcare, affordable or otherwise.
And notice they always say “quality healthcare.”
Quality means nothing without a qualifier. There are good qualities and bad qualities.
McCain can't allow the removal of a 100 foot tapeworm in my body because nobody has a worm to replace it.
Top? Only..,.
Wasn't going to happen.
If it wasn't him it would have been another.
Just like with the House bill these Senators were promised that this bill in its form they voted for would never be law.
One way to look at it is that the Dems have a majority in the Senate. Even if a solid conservative replaced McCain, odds are the uniparty could find 2 or 3 more RINOs besides Collins and Murkowski. And the media will blame Trump because he didn't pass any healthcare bills "even with GOP majorities in both houses."
Dems won on health care.
They with Obama-care convinced a significant number of Americans that health care is a right delivered by the Federal government.
Trump's election didnt change that, in fact the opposite.
As time goes on with him POTUS he slowly inherits the blame from Obama for Obama-care imploding.
Repeal wasnt going to pass.
“Songbird McCain” strikes again! A true Benedict Arnold traitor in every sense of the word.
When will the fine people of Arizona get rid of this idiot?
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