Today marks three years since unelected Senator Martha McSally infamously stood up in a House GOP conference meeting and told her wavering colleagues, “let’s get this f*cking thing done.” The deeply unpopular bill that McSally enthusiastically voted for that day would have spiked costs for millions of Americans, gutted coverage protections for pre-existing conditions, and imposed an age tax.
The anniversary of McSally’s vote coincided with yet another attempt to mislead voters about her toxic record of repeatedly voting to gut pre-existing conditions coverage and other health care benefits. This time the unelected Senator was caught featuring a former staffer in a new ad that does not disclose the individual was paid nearly $400,000 for work in her Congressional office and on her political campaigns. The shady ad earned McSally a round of blistering local reviews, with one op-ed asserting that “failing to mention her employment is disingenuous, at best.”
McSally knows health care is a liability: she complained during the 2018 election that she was getting her “ass kicked” on the issue. Still, she voted again to undermine pre-existing conditions by backing “junk plans” that “deny coverage based on consumers’ pre-existing health conditions. She’s done nothing to stop her party’s lawsuit to tear down pre-existing conditions coverage from “plow[ing] forward.” The unelected Senator also refuses to hold the Trump Administration accountable for its decision to keep special enrollment in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace closed in the midst of a deadly global pandemic when millions of Americans are losing their employer based coverage.
“McSally’s behind-closed-door rallying cry to overturn the protections Arizonans rely on won’t be forgotten, and voters know she continues to undermine their health care as an unelected Senator,” said DSCC spokesperson Helen Kalla. “Senator McSally has proven she does not have the independence to stand up for what’s right for Arizona.”
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