John McCain did not support the recent proposals to repeal obamacare. This is compilation of a few of the many clips of John McCain advocating Repealing and replacing Obamacare in the past.
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Recently McCain has twice scuttled Republican attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare. He now says that it has to be done through regular order and on a bipartisan basis:
“I would consider supporting legislation similar to that offered by my friends Senators Graham and Cassidy were it the product of extensive hearings, debate and amendment,” said McCain’s statement. “But that has not been the case.”
In the past, a few times he’s shown rhetorically wagging his finger on this issue, at one point complaining about how Obamacare “was rammed through the Congress of the United States without a single vote from the other side” in 2009 and 2010.
“You had your 60 votes, you rammed the 60 votes and the (Affordable Care Act) down our throats,” he says to a Democrat in another clip.
McCain did run election on a strong repeal-and-replace platform. In fact, it was the principal distinction he drew with his Democratic opponent, Ann Kirkpatrick. He would vote to repeal Obamacare. She would not.
McCain now says that Democrats made a mistake in passing Obamacare on a partisan basis, and that Republicans shouldn’t undo it on a similarly partisan basis. Democrats can enact legislation on a partisan basis, but Republicans can undo it only if Democrats agree.
There is no bipartisan agreement possible to repeal and replace Obamacare, as McCain vowed to do. That’s because there is no Democrat willing to agree to the first step, repeal.