Monday, September 18, 2017

John McCain Saved Obamacare. Now He’s Poised To Kill It.


When McCain put his thumb down, he said it was about “regular order.” Weeks later, it looks like the Momentary Maverick may throw away his principles to help his senate BFF.

By Michael Tomasky

Gulp. That’s what every liberal on Twitter did Monday morning at 11:50 a.m. when Benjy Sarlin, who covers the Hill for NBC, tweeted:

"McCain tells @GarrettHaake he wants bipartisan bill with wks of hearings. BUT may "reluctantly" back Graham-Cassidy if AZ Gov approves."

And then, another gulp about two hours later, when the very man McCain cited in his tweet, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, issued one of his own:

If you’ve been following the latest goings on in the Senate on health care, you know just how ominous this is. The last time Senate Republicans tried to undo Obamacare, with the “skinny” repeal bill, it was John McCain’s dramatic post-midnight thumbs down that killed the effort. Without him, that awful bill, which would have thrown millions off the health-insurance rolls and dramatically slashed Medicaid, might well have passed.

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Source: The Daily Beast

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