Montini: Will McCain convince McCain to vote no on Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal?
EJ Montini: The senator doesn't need anyone else to make the argument he should oppose the Graham-Cassidy bill. He only needs to read his own words.
EJ Montini
No one needs to convince Sen. John McCain to vote "no" on the latest last ditch effort to repeal Obamacare, the one proposed by McCain's dear friend Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, along with Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.
McCain needs only to listen to ... McCain.
When he cast the deciding vote against the so-called "skinny repeal" in July Sen. McCain issued a statement outlining his reasoning. He said, in essence, the only way to do health-care reform correctly is to follow "regular order," hold hearings, get input from all sides and come up with a bipartisan bill.
McCain is a reasoned, knowledgeable man. No one could convince him to do the right thing better than he could. Or, as the senator said, in part:
“I’ve stated time and time again that one of the major failures of Obamacare was that it was rammed through Congress by Democrats on a strict-party line basis without a single Republican vote. 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. 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. We must do the hard work our citizens expect of us and deserve.”
Yes.
That.
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