Our healthcare is currently safe from being stolen because an 80 year old man — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — is recovering from brain surgery and can’t provide the GOP winning vote to kill Obamacare and pass TrumpScare ?
And this 80 year old man’s healthcare is some of the best available because it’s provided by the United States Senate and even if they destroy OUR healthcare this guy gets to keep his amazing coverage because he and his colleagues have made sure to exempt themselves from the Dismantling of Health Care Act of 2017.
Now, that’s how to Make America NOT Great Again. ( MANGA )
RESIST !
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Why don’t they give the taxpayers the same taxpayer-funded health care they enjoy, and be done with this nonsense?
That was the John Kerry plan. The older I get, the better that man looks in hindsight.
This is a rather strange story. I can recall a lot of times when one Senator or another was incapacitated for a while, but I can’t remember a vote ever being postponed for that reason.
JFK used his illnesses to duck uncomfortable votes on Taft Hartley repeal, the McCarthy censure, and the 57′ Civil Rights Act.
For the record, it’s a blood clot behind his eye, not brain surgery.
The New York Times published a story that claims the GOP leadership has been greatly understating the seriousness of the condition, and it is essentially brain surgery:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/health/john-mccain-blood-clot-recovery.html
It WAS brain surgery. It was a craniotomy, and they used an eyebrow incision to access the site.
Craniotomy is skull surgery — it may or may not involve the brain.
But we’re splitting hairs here. It’s major surgery performed near the eye and brain of an 80 year old man. It’s serious one way or the other.
FWIW John McCain was the first presidential candidate I was old enough to want to vote for, a decorated war hero, and someone I’d vote for over Trump in a heartbeat. Obviously I voted against him in 2008 and he’s largely been a disappointment since the 2000 campaign, but I respect his service and wish him a speedy recovery. Even though I know he’ll demonstrate his “grave concerns” for this bill by voting for it as is.
I wonder if Senator’s McCain’s doctors and nurses are lobbying him? They should.
Had he not had Cadillac coverage, McCain’s surgery alone would have cost him $76,000.
Is that ethical? Purely curious… is it ethical for medical staff to lobby patients, politicians or otherwise?
Heh. For some reason, I’m reminded of uniformed and armed cops knocking on my door and asking me to donate to the “Policeman’s Disability Fund” (or similar entity).
I don’t know whether or not it’s ethical. I don’t even know if my own reaction is usual. I do know that I always wondered whether giving or not giving had any consequences.
Senator McCain has brain cancer. It was just announced. Our thoughts and prayers are with him.
Trump hasn’t made a statement yet. President Obama just said : ” John McCain is an American hero and one of the bravest fighters I’ve ever known. Cancer doesn’t know what it’s up against. Give it hell, John.”
Memo to 45: This is how real Presidents tweet!
Not for nurses I can say that much.