Is it too soon for RUDE PUNDIT's "Dead Senator"?

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15. McCain's vote to repeal the mandate was not the same as repealing the ACA.

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We still have protections for pre-existing conditions, we still have 100% coverage for preventive care, children can still stay on their parents' policy until 26. Yes, repealing the mandate spiked costs and made the markets unstable, but we still have the ACA. Turns out, even without the mandate, people are still buying insurance on the market places.

McCain's dramatic vote to stop the repeal of the ACA is something I will always be grateful for. It cost him the approval of GOP voters, but it saved thousands of lives. So, I will have to disagree that he "didn't really do much of anything to help people." That vote alone helped millions of people and saved thousands of lives...and will continue to save thousands of American lives for each year the ACA is on the books.

And there is his heroism with regard to the Steele dossier that Rude ignores. DUer pwnmom put it succinctly:

John McCain sent his assistant to Europe to hand-carry the Steele dossier to him in the US, and then McCain personally delivered it to the FBI 

He didn't get the dossier and sit on it or otherwise suppress it. 

The Rethugs in power must have hated him for that. And we should all be grateful.

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