Montini: Delusional Doug Ducey still supports Graham-Cassidy

As the national argument over health-care legislation goes on, it becomes more and more clear just how much Gov. Doug Ducey is beholden to the big-money interests he hopes will propel his future political career and just how little he cares for the citizens he is supposed to represent.

Sen. John McCain simply and eloquently explained why a restructuring of health-care legislation should be done through a thoughtful, deliberative process, in a bipartisan way, and why he therefore is not a supporter of the Graham-Cassidy last-ditch effort to kill the Affordable Care Act.

Why Ducey would be opposed to such a process and in favor of a bill that is being rushed through the senate with no good hearings, no input from stakeholders, and opposition from dozens of health care organizations and patient advocacy groups has nothing to do with people and everything to do with politics.

It’s both sad and sickening.

Most recently the governor tweeted:

Does he not realize that when he praises the fact that the bill “shifts dollars and decisions back to the states” that we’re talking about a LOT fewer dollars? Billions. Which will greatly inhibit those in office from making the kinds of decisions that will keep thousands of Arizona from maintaining any kind of health care and, in essence, kill some of them?

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Maybe the difference between McCain and Ducey is this:

Ducey sees this issue as a matter of life and death, politically, for himself.

McCain sees this issue as a matter of life and death, literally, for others.

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