The two senators who will likely decide fate of ObamaCare repeal

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The two senators who will likely decide fate of ObamaCare repeal
By Jessie Hellmann - 09/20/17 06:00 AM EDT

All eyes are on Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) as Republicans try to approve a new Obama-Care repeal bill in the next 11 days.

The two were among the three Republicans who sunk the last GOP effort to repeal ObamaCare, and President Trump and his allies probably can’t afford to lose either if they are to win a vote next week.

Murkowski says she wants to make sure her huge, isolated and sparsely populated state fares well under the new bill. It would repeal much of ObamaCare and use the savings for block grants for states, giving them much more discretion on how to spend the federal funding.

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[Right_in_Virginia]

Would McCain really break with his good friend Lindsay Graham??

[corbe]

   How did they flip Collins because if I'm not mistaken PP funding is being removed for a year just like the other 2 HC Bills one of which she voted against?

    McConnell gonna give the great state of Maine some pork?

[Free Vulcan]

Yay everybody!! Our fates are in the hands of these two clowns!!

[TomSea]

I trust Ted Cruz on this issue, he has been supportive of these bills.

[mountaineer]

I just saw a PP tweet (paid advertisement) urging people to contact Sen. Capito (WV) and tell her not to take away healthcare. I wanted to ask them how slaughtering babies constitutes healthcare, but figured it was pointless.

[Applewood]

It's not a repeal and I wish news outlets would stop calling it that.

[corbe]

@TomSea

[XenaLee]

   How did they flip Collins because if I'm not mistaken PP funding is being removed for a year just like the other 2 HC Bills one of which she voted against?

    McConnell gonna give the great state of Maine some pork?

Probably another Cornhusker kickback kinda "deal".

But realistically, I don't see Collins flipping on this if it truly does defund PP....even for a year (and why just for a year?).  I see her and McCain tanking the bill.... again and as usual.  McCain figures what does he have to lose....and Collins will just be adhering to her standard libleftie values. 

[jmyrlefuller]

Grandstand Rand has already vowed to tank it.

[RoosGirl]

Grandstand Rand has already vowed to tank it.

You must like the idea of paying all those taxes to fund it?

[Cyber Liberty]

Would McCain really break with his good friend Lindsay Graham??

He did on the last bill.

[txradioguy]

   How did they flip Collins because if I'm not mistaken PP funding is being removed for a year just like the other 2 HC Bills one of which she voted against?

    McConnell gonna give the great state of Maine some pork?

Probably something along the lines of what Pelosi had to do to get the holdout Dems to vote for the ACA in the first place.

[txradioguy]

Grandstand Rand has already vowed to tank it.

Good...I'm sure he's not the only one.

[Sanguine]

I trust Ted Cruz on this issue, he has been supportive of these bills.

[jmyrlefuller]

You must like the idea of paying all those taxes to fund it?

I'll be able to opt out and my low income means my hands are clean. I'll let the rest of y'all figure out the mess I'm no longer a part of handling.

[Cyber Liberty]

I'll be able to opt out and my low income means my hands are clean. I'll let the rest of y'all figure out the mess I'm no longer a part of handling.

That's a novel approach to the subject.

[RoosGirl]

I'll be able to opt out and my low income means my hands are clean. I'll let the rest of y'all figure out the mess I'm no longer a part of handling.

That is so considerate of you.

[Jazzhead]

It's not a repeal and I wish news outlets would stop calling it that.

It's not repeal but it still advances important conservative priorities.   Pay off Murkowski if necessary,  just let's get this thing done.   

I may be mistaken,  but I assume we need both McCain and Murkowski, since Collins really is a RINO and Rand Paul is an idiot.   

[Cyber Liberty]

I may be mistaken,  but I assume we need both McCain and Murkowski, since Collins really is a RINO and Rand Paul is an idiot.

I may not agree with you about much, but that observation is spot on.  I owe you a ceegar.

[Jazzhead]

I may not agree with you about much, but that observation is spot on.  I owe you a ceegar.

McCain said he wanted the governor of his state to weigh in, and he's done so -  Arizona wants the ability to innovate that Graham/Cassidy provides.  Let's hope McCain is a man of honor.   As for Murkowski, I hope she can be bought off with a Kodiak kickback - Alaska really does have some unique issues with its scattered population and high proportion of native Americans.   

Rand's a fool who's beyond redemption, but for the record - Kentucky's governor, too, is in favor of Graham/Cassidy.   Collins?  The less said, the better - at least she's been consistent in defying GOP leadership throughout this whole process.   That, folks, is a RINO.   

[txradioguy]

It's not repeal but it still advances important conservative priorities.   

Expanding government and having the Federal government run the healthcare industry is NOT furthering ANY Conservative priorities.

[Jazzhead]

Expanding government and having the Federal government run the healthcare industry is NOT furthering ANY Conservative priorities.

The vast majority of conservatives in the Senate think it does.

[Cyber Liberty]

Like McCain. 

[txradioguy]

The vast majority of conservatives in the Senate think it does.

The Conservatives...the real Conservatives...don't think it is.  Otherwise the first attempt at Obamacare-lite would have passed.

Every attempt at anything short of a repeal has failed because Conservatives...not the RINO's you call "conservative" because they have strong Liberal leanings like yourself...but real Conservatives have blocked an expansion of Federal power that their own party is trying to shove on Americans.

That you don't understand that is not surprising.