Randy131 Loc: Florida

Try telling that to the average American, because their averaged income was just $52,000.00 a year when Obama became President, which by the time Obama's terms as President were over it had declined to almost $50,000.00, but in the last 8 months has been on the rise again.

$54,000.00 is a lot of money for everyone but the rich, which can afford the high increases that Obamacare has cost all Americans, but Obamacare did reduce the costs that were being paid by the very rich, and if they were able to pay $54,000.00 a year for healthcare insurance, they were rich. But Obama and the Democrats gave them relief, while costing the poor and middleclass Americans to pay a tremendously higher costs than they had under a free market system.

So what you have told us is that Obama and the Democrats have saved the rich money in their healthcare costs, by costing the poor and middleclass much more money, something the Democrats are always saying shouldn't happen when the rich are giving tax breaks at much lower percentage than the poor and middleclass are given, but because they pay so much more than the poor and middleclass, the total amount of their taxes are lowered more than the total amount of the poor and middleclass, even though the poor and middleclass get a much higher percentage lowering of their tax rate than does the rich. This proves the hypocrisy of the liberals, progressives, and Democrats.

kankune Loc: Iowa

Amen Randy!

badbob85037

I know invite only but living in Arizona since the mid 70's and the way I feel about McCain I had to put in my 2 cents. In the 80's I voted for him. Every time I wrote him I would receive a reply. Not a form letter but a reply. He told me he was a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and at first we saw eye to eye. After his second term he started his support of illegal immigration I watched Obama's head of Homeland Security take this state from $3 billion in the black to $3 billion in the red with her free give aways to these illegals. In our state buildings hung signs with gold dollar signs on them promising these people no deportation and gifts of everything from housing to, cash,child care and even free rest homes while Phoenix had thousands of homeless Americans including small children. Writing McCain now, if lucky you will get a one form letter fits all response having nothing to do with what your concerns were.

Since the 90's I have only voted for McCain once and that was for president but I would have voted for the Devil before obama. The 'Affordable' Care Act has hit Arizona harder than most of the nation. Our insurance has gone up an average of 116% and that is for only half the coverage and a deductible you would have to be dying to ever reach. In other words no coverage with mandatory government fines if not paying a lot for nothing. McCain had promised the people of Arizona for five years he would end this unconstitutional 'law' but instead stabbed every man, woman, and child in this state in their back. He did it for nothing but to undercut a president of his own party. To do so he must be dying as he will not be re-elected.

When all else failed I wrote him a letter telling him with his age he should start thinking of the time he stands before God. His actions since then I can only assume he has no belief in a supreme being. He has also started the John McCain Foundation and has taken a million from Sadie Arabia and George Soros. Before his illness you would find him on some talk show every Sunday wanting to attack some none nuclear country as all 48 members of the defense committee take an average of $700,000 a year from the military industrial complex they give a trillion a year too. That doesn't include the $440 billion a year of the weapons they sell other countries. He leads this committee.

Alicia Loc: NYC

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I can see that McCain was not placing his negative vote against theACA repeal but noted his complaint regarding how this repeal was being handled. He wanted the vote to go through "normal" procedures which allowed time to discuss and debate the pros and cons (such as AC was, which took a full year) and it not being done in secret.

kankune Loc: Iowa

Great post Bad. I've never liked McCain. He's a backstabber and hates Trump. His no votes are only to be vindictive. He has no concerns about the people he represents. Now that he's dying....even less.....

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

It seems that the only ones helped are those that held no jobs and those that had minimum wage jobs. Also those that had lost their jobs and went on Medicare to have insurance.

Randy131 Loc: Florida

Unfortunately Louie, "those that held no jobs and those that had minimum wage jobs" couldn't afford Obamacare, even with the federal government stipend they would get for being in that low income group (most were put on Medicaid) and if they could afford it, they couldn't afford to use it, because the copays and deductibles that have to come out of their pockets are so high that these poor and middleclass people couldn't pay them. The only people who have benefited from Obamacare were those who were already paying out tremendous amounts of money for their healthcare, and getting on Obamacare, even though it is very, very costly, is still less than a tenth of what they had been paying, and to pay that much they had to be rich, and Obamacare gave them relief in the amount of money that they were paying, which only the rich could afford to pay. So the oximoronic law is only affordable for the rich, but not for the poor and middleclass people of the USA, and the rich are the only ones who have benefited from it, where they don't have to pay near as much as they were paying and could afford to pay, but don't have to now thanks to Obamacare.

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

As to my understanding the vote was to be to hold discussions on the bill, by all of the Senators. So one of us has it wrong.