Martha McSally in Fox News Sunday interviews during 2018


On Health Care: ObamaCare is not covering people with preexisting conditions

Q: Kyrsten Sinema defends ObamaCare's preexisting condition coverage. Do you acknowledge that protection for people with preexisting conditions was significantly weaker under your repeal and replace bill than it was under ObamaCare?

MCSALLY: I am passionate about protecting people with preexisting conditions and forcing insurance companies to provide them health insurance. I voted to make sure that they had that coverage. The reality is that ObamaCare right now is not covering people with preexisting conditions. We can't go back to what we were in the past. I met an entrepreneur last week who decided to start a small business with a preexisting condition. She's uncovered right now under ObamaCare. So, we are trying to move towards a system that provides more options, more choice for people, that lowers the cost, that allows states to manage it.

Source: Fox News Sunday interviews for 2018 Arizona Senate race Oct 21, 2018

On Health Care: Flexibility for states, instead of federal one-size-fits-all

Q: Under repeal and replace, the bill that you voted for, if someone had a lapse in coverage of 63 days, states could force those people to buy it from a risk pool. And that meant that the premiums would be higher. That's exactly the kind of thing that ObamaCare tried to prevent.

MCSALLY: Yes, what we were trying to do is not have the federal government one-size-fits-all, top-down approach, while protecting people with preexisting conditions, allowing states flexibility.

Source: Fox News Sunday interviews for 2018 Arizona Senate race Oct 21, 2018

On Immigration: Secure the border to keep out drugs & human trafficking

Q: President Trump said this week about the Central American migrant caravan, "You got some bad people in those groups...This country doesn't want them.". Do you support the president's policy on migration, to prevent that caravan from coming in?

MCSALLY: I share the president's frustration that the Democrats are obstructing on this issue. I represent a Southern border district. And on the border right now we're dealing with a cartel activity, continuing to traffic opioids and other drugs and human trafficking into our communities. This is a public safety and a national security issue. A number of people are being trafficked by the cartels, taking advantage of the loopholes in our laws, so that they know they're going to be released right into the interior of the US, never to show up for their court date. This isn't working. And my bill that I worked really closely with the White House on closed these loopholes. Only Congress can do it This is a unifying issue across Arizona.

Source: Fox News Sunday interviews for 2018 Arizona Senate race Oct 21, 2018

On Immigration: 2015: Supported merit-based entry with keeping DREAMers

Q: You supported an immigration bill in 2015, in which you opposed defunding DACA, and, in fact, you supported a path to citizenship for the DREAMers. Now you oppose the migrant caravan coming in as refugees. Have you been inconsistent on this issue?

MCSALLY: I have been consistently leading on this issue as the Border Security Subcommittee chair. This is a difficult issue. But when the president kicked DACA to Congress, appropriately, we worked together, to lead, to identify a solution that secures the border, closes these legal loopholes, moves us more towards a merit- based system, and does something on DACA. This is what we worked on to bring to the floor. Unfortunately, we couldn't get it passed. But we're going to keep working on it, because the border still needs to be secured. These loopholes still need to be closed. And I'm going to continue to lead on this when I'm in the Senate. Even though Washington, D.C., moves on the other topics, we still have to address this issue.

Source: Fox News Sunday interviews for 2018 Arizona Senate race Oct 21, 2018

On War & Peace: Sinema committed treason by insufficiently opposing Taliban

Q: You and Kyrsten Sinema had a debate this week, in which you said that, back in 2003, your opponent was on a radio talk show where the host hypothetically talked about joining the Taliban, and Sinema said "I don't care if you want to do that." And that led to this exchange in the debate:

(BEGIN VIDEO) MCSALLY: Kyrsten, I want to ask right now whether you're going to apologize to the veterans and me for saying it's OK to commit treason.

SINEMA: Martha has chosen to run a campaign where she is engaging in ridiculous attacks.(END VIDEO).

Q: Do you really think that Kyrsten Sinema was approving treason?

MCSALLY: Well, it's her words. It's totally out of step with American values.

Q: Sinema says this talk show host was going off presenting all kinds of hypothetical ideas, and she was just trying to shut him down and get back to the fact that she opposed the Iraq War, which was just about to start in 2003.

MCSALLY: Well, she continues to make excuses.

Source: Fox News Sunday interviews for 2018 Arizona Senate race Oct 21, 2018

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