6:55 am September 27, 2017
Don’t call it Obamacare. President Barack
Obama served his country and quietly left office.
The Affordable Care Act survives as the legacy
of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. He led the charge against repealing the law in
July and pledges to defeat another repeal this month.
He won’t let anyone stop the failed health
care law, so long as the left rewards him for defending it. He offers no ideas
for improving access and lowering costs.
Call the failed system McCain Care, after a
man who values media adoration above all.
McCain was in a political dogfight last fall
for what would become his sixth consecutive six-year term.
Just as the November election reached the
final stretch last October, the Department of Health and Human Services
announced staggering Obamacare premium hikes averaging 25 percent for midlevel
benchmark plans. The report said 1 in 5 Obamacare consumers would have only one
plan to choose from.
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For Arizona, the news was much worse. Hit
hardest by Obamacare, the government said monthly premiums for a typical
Arizona 20-something with a benchmark “silver” plan would increase 116 percent
in 2017. The price would go from $196 to $422.
No one was quicker to feign outrage than
McCain, who needed to win an election. He angrily called the Affordable Care
Act a “failure.” He pledged to lead an effort to repeal the law in the coming
congressional session.
“Arizona families are demanding affordability,
accessibility and choice when it comes to their health care — not the
expensive, restrictive and poor quality care that has been forced upon them by
Obamacare,” McCain said.
The senator sanctioned a TV ad with a
voiceover and written text that said “John McCain is leading the fight to STOP
Obamacare.” The ad ended with “I’m John McCain and I approved this message.”
After winning re-election as the man who would
in all caps “STOP” Obamacare, McCain returned to his role as the media’s go-to
anti-conservative “Republican.”
He marched onto the Senate floor July 27 to
make a pronounced thumbs-down spectacle when voting against an Obamacare repeal
bill President Donald Trump promised to sign. With McCain it would pass;
without him it would fail.
Liberal MSNBC anchor Brian Williams gushed,
calling McCain a “profile in courage.” Liberal MSNBC correspondent Kasie Hunt
credited McCain’s vote to his “long legacy as a war hero.” Less creative
pundits rolled out “the maverick” moniker while looping video of McCain’s
“thumbs down” protest of repeal.
Swarmed by media after the vote, McCain did
not exude the body language of someone who had made an agonizing decision to
betray a promise. He smirked like a man basking in a hero’s parade, sorry for
nothing.
The Affordable Care act hurts people, in a
manner best described by working-class advocate and former President Bill
Clinton.
“You’ve got this crazy system where all the
sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people are out
there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums
doubled and their coverage cut in half,” Clinton said in October. “It’s the
craziest thing in the world.”
That was only days before McCain learned
premiums would more than double for his constituents.
At 81, “the maverick” probably won’t seek
another term. In Washington, 2,300 miles from Phoenix, McCain cares more about
the media’s crush on him than the constituents he blatantly deceived.
When premiums double again, don’t blame Obama.
Call it McCain Care, for the Republican who led a fight to sustain it.
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