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Originally Posted by Mick
I'm not saying it did. The whole thing is a mess. McCain preached the day he came back that they never get things done because of Partisan politics, then he sides with the devil party by voting with them.
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Surely he has just proven that he isn't partisan by voting down a bad bill even if that means siding with the Democrats.
This bill would have revoked the individual mandate and defund Planned Parenthood. Even Democrats accept Obamacare is flawed, even Obama has said it's flawed, but the core of it remains popular: people should have health insurance and have pre-existing conditions covered.
Instead of finding a way to fix it's flaws the Republicans sought to undermine the principle entirely. They're a party of small government and fundamentally do not believe the government should be involved in healthcare, which forcing people to get insurance is doing. They were caught between the desire to revoke it entirely from the likes of Rand Paul to people who worried about the consequences of taking away healthcare.
Trump, who promised a better Obamacare, seemed to show little interest in the detail.