McCain: I'm not there yet on latest Obamacare repeal bill

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By ELANA SCHOR 09/18/2017 05:08 PM EDT

Sen. John McCain said on Monday that he's not yet on board with his party's latest Obamacare repeal bill, airing some of the same objections that he cited when killing the last GOP push to axe the health law.

"I am not supportive of the bill yet," McCain told reporters, adding that he and fellow Republicans would "talk more about it" as the clock ticks closer to the Sept. 30 deadline for the GOP to repeal Obamacare with a simple majority vote in the Senate.

The Arizona Republican reiterated his previous insistence on "the regular order" for any Obamacare repeal bill, the central theme of the floor speech he delivered in July before dealing a fatal blow to the GOP's repeal efforts.

Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a cosponsor of the newest Obamacare repeal bill, plans to hold a hearing on its substance next week in the panel that he chairs. But Johnson's committee does not have primary jurisdiction over health care, making a formal markup of the bill impossible. And McCain suggested that Johnson's efforts to examine the legislation might not be enough to satisfy him.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. you like the attention, John? I know, what say you announce that you WONT kill

25, 000 of us in the first year.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Senile and demented old men are running the country

[Promee]

3. You just like...

tens of thousands of lives hanging on our every word, don't you, John?

You just like having millions holding our collective breath while we hope that you have some basic decency in the last days of your life, don't you?

This bill isn't any better than the garbage fires before it and you know it. You KNOW it.

So this is just you playing games and it's disgusting.

[PSPS]

4. He meant "it's not here yet" referring to a fresh ink supply for his heavily-used rubber stamp.

[msongs]

5. on principle he is ok with taking away health care for millions. just needs the details on how to

do it to maintain his fake hero status

[not fooled]

6. Is this before or after

he said he would vote the way the ErrorZona puke gov told him to?

[videohead5]

9. It Was After

We need to get the CBO score on this POS bill but they will try to ram it through before the CBO has a chance to say what it will do.they can only afford to lose 2 and Ran Paul has done said no.if we can get Collins and Murkowski to vote no.I don't think Collins will vote for this and that means it could come down to Murkowski.

[Squinch]

7. Jesus. They're all starting to act like Trump(R).

[Old Vet]

8. Make no mistake, McCain is gonna vote with the other republicans this time.

[BigmanPigman]

10. His behavior is equal to torture, plain and simple!

I am already very sick and had to stop teaching without benefits. What he and the GOP is doing is equal to torture! I can not take it anymore!!!!

I am suffering physically and financially after dedicating myself as a public servant with very low pay and a two degrees to teach children and now I am being ignored and told that I am not worthy of decent and affordable healthcare.

This is the equivalent of torture to me and my 83 year old parents who will lose their savings to help pay for my needed surgeries before I die (which will be before they do and in severe pain). The mental anguish is making me and my family even more ill (physically) since mental health is transferred to physical health.

I have been resisting like mad in every way possible and am in tears as I write this! Every time I call Congress (almost 400 times since the beginning of the year) I start crying to the Congressional phone staffers. This takes SOOOOO much out of me. I can not bare the frustration, sadness and anger for much longer. I am actually making my family worried but I am being realistic and they know it.

Please call Congress and stop this madness [phone]...THANKS YOU!