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The Republic’s political team on Aug. 23, 2017, talks President Trump’s visit to Arizona and if the school voucher referendum will make the ballot. Johanna Huckeba/azcentral.com
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Sen. Jeff Flake’s new book defends Reagan-style conservatism and critiques the Republican Party. Gov. Doug Ducey plays a role in Sen. John McCain’s health-care vote. U.S. Rep. Martha McSally helps craft a bipartisan plan for the insurance system. Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic
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In this week’s episode, reporters Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Dan Nowicki and Rob Hansen discuss the health-care bill, and how it might affect Arizonans, along with the state’s school-voucher program. Johanna Huckeba/azcentral.com
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Our weekly politics podcast gives you inside-the-newsroom conversation you can’t get anywhere else. This week, a special edition examines the politics of education in Arizona, and our exclusive report on the state’s teacher shortage.
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The Gaggle: Tax that did not get cut, tweets from Gosar and a non-job
The Gaggle: SB 1142 is dead and town halls get rowdy
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Sen. John McCain will make “good choices” in evaluating the Graham-Cassidy health-care bill because “he’s staring death in the face right now,” a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania told a town-hall audience earlier this week.
“So he’s probably going to make good choices and he’s not going to bend to political pressure,” said Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Penn.
McCain, R-Ariz., is undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer. The 81-year-old veteran Arizona Republican in July was one of three Senate Republicans to help derail the GOP’s “skinny repeal” plan to get rid of some elements of former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act as part of a larger push to repeal and replace what Republicans branded as “Obamacare.”
McCain, who is maintaining a full Senate work schedule, has not signaled how he will vote on the new plan from Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., that would shift health-care spending for the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion and health-care exchanges from the federal government to the states via block grants.
However, McCain has repeatedly called for the Senate to return to regular order, which would require committee hearings, amendments and bipartisan participation in the plan.
Cartwright’s comments about McCain were reported Thursday by the Washington Examiner and the Daily Caller.
McCain’s office did not respond late Thursday to The Arizona Republic’s request for comment on Cartwright’s characterization of his health challenges.
Cartwright, whose 17th Congressional District includes the Pennsylvanian cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Pottsville, said he was worried about McCain because Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has come out in support of Graham-Cassidy and “that puts pressure on McCain.”
Dumping “Obamacare” is a top domestic priority of President Donald Trump’s. Opponents have mobilized to save the ACA and stop what they call “Trumpcare.”
According to a Joint Legislative Budget Committee analysis, Arizona’s net loss of federal funding under Graham-Cassidy would be $1.7 billion in 2020 compared to current law, which otherwise would provide $4.9 billion for the state’s Medicaid expansion and exchange in that year.
Nowicki is The Republic’s national political reporter. Follow him on Twitter, @dannowicki.
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