Posted on 09/22/2017 6:38:28 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made these statements.
“My friendship with John McCain is not based on how he votes but respect for how he’s lived his life and the person he is.
“I respectfully disagree with his position not to proceed forward on Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson. I know Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson is the best chance to repeal and replace Obamacare.
“Obamacare is collapsing in Arizona, South Carolina, and across the nation - driving up premiums and reducing choices. I feel an obligation to fix this disaster and intend to push forward for state-centric health care versus Washington-knows-best health care.
“I’m completely convinced taking money and power out of Washington and returning it to states to administer health care is the best way to replace a collapsing Obamacare system. I’m excited about solutions we have found in Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson. We press on.”
“It was all Kabuki theater. Nobody wanted this to pass. Certainly not Graham. This was just a show for the sheep.”
Just read similar on the Donald. McCain is dead man walking so he is giving cover to all the RINOs who don’t want Ocare repealed but want to get reelected.
Yep. I think you’re right. That’s also the way i understood it.
Basically that is what I thought, it means STATES must create that healthcare in state budgets....Medicaid has been a give away, and the governors will have to reel it in! Not happy about that.
People must be truly destroyed by Obamacare.
Their pain must be intense and intolerable.
People need motivation to change Congress. It’s coming.
Just because he sponsored it doesn’t mean he really wanted it to pass.
He’s worse than nuts.
He’s a vindictive, traitorous piece of sh*t that’s ONLY doing this to stick it to Trump, and in the process, stick it to the Country.
Mr. President, you have a bullypulpit. Please use it to call this treasonous pile of excrement out publicly.
Every damn day.
This has been one of the Conservatives’ biggest complaints, the Medicaid section of health care provision under Obamacare.
They didn’t want the government funding anyone’s health care provision. They wanted it all to be private sector.
What this means, is that Trump has dumped it on the states, so that they will cut the Medicaid roles, themselves.
It needs to be done. If this does reduce the Medicaid rolls, that’s what we wanted.
Will it result in that? I don’t know. I hope it does.
He’s a walking tumor.
Dear Linda,
It’s not Cancer...
It’s AIDS.
Love,
John
“My friendship with John McCain is not based on how he votes but respect for how he’s lived his life and the person he is.”
Well now we know Linda likes McTraitor for stabbing the Republican Party in the back every time he turns around for the last 35 years.
If you mean all the Democrats that crossed over to vote for him in SC, then maybe you are right. Most South Carolinians know Lindsey for the duplicitous bastard that he is and we would like nothing better than to vote him out of office. The Rep. Party in SC does everything it can to make that impossible.
Except that this time, it was Graham himself who was stabbed in the back by his *friend* McCain, just as he was trying to emerge as a leader.
As I posted above, it's amazing that McCain, in his dying year, still couldn't muster the loyalty to his best friend to help him establish a legacy of his own.
-PJ
Well, true, but at least most people would have the option to move to a sane state with a decent system. (Giant sucking sound begins in CA, IL, etc...)
Notice how McCain’s vote will probably not be necessary.
McCain is a grandstanding son of a wh*re, who s failing to rescue the nation from a bunch of liberal fascists.Its hhis swan song.
See ya John, hate ta be ya! Buh-bye!
Hell of a note to end an undistinguished career on.
I didn’t address parts there I should have.
I believe states already have Medicaid programs. In California it’s called Medi-Cal.
California opted to throw as many people on it as they could.
It’s my take that the federal government is going to provide block grants, and the states will have to manage the programs themselves.
It puts more pressure on the states to stay within budget. It may cost some federal overhead too. I’m not sure how the whole thing works.
We have too many people on it in California, and if that number can be cut back, it would be good for the state and the federal government.
If this affects you negatively, I’m sorry.
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