Thumbs down, sir.

By now you know that Sen. John McCain squandered his last chance at making a real positive difference in the United States. He voted “yes” to allow the Republican-controlled legislative branch of our government to continue to pursue the human and economic disaster of repealing Obamacare.

The fact that Sen. John McCain is a raging hypocrite is not news. McCain has always been an awful abomination of an elected official. Frankly, McCain should have gone to jail for his involvement in the savings and loan debacle of the late 1980s, so this realization is nothing new. What is new is that McCain has recently been diagnosed with a terrible disease—brain cancer. More specifically, he is battling glioblastoma, which is a very aggressive form of the disease. The prognosis for the disease, even with the less difficult placement of the tumor that was recently removed from the senator, is not a great one.

McCain's Mayo doctors said the senator's next treatment options may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. That's standard, and can take weeks to months. Even among those who respond to initial treatment, the cancer can come back, and often within 12 to 24 months. The American Cancer Society puts the five-year survival rate for patients over 55 at about 4 percent.

The road ahead for McCain is a tough one, but he will receive the best treatments known to the history of the world. The fact that Sen. McCain is already wealthy through his marriage to beer heiress Cindy Lou Hensley doesn’t change the fact that McCain won’t be paying out of pocket for the surgeries and treatments he will be receiving in the coming months and possibly years. McCain is covered by our tax dollars, with some excellent insurance.

So, what might it cost Sen. McCain if he say, didn’t have insurance? Say McCain decided to buy a brand new iPhone because his kids kept telling him to get on Facebook and Instagram so he could see pictures of his grandkids. As a result, John McCain couldn’t spend the magical $750 dollars for the magical health insurance Republicans say is available to anybody willing to abstain from buying a smartphone. Let’s run some very conservative numbers, starting with:

Brain surgery. The first thing doctors have done—forget about all of the tests they’ve run and the exams that led to the diagnosis that there was a tumor—is remove a malignant tumor from McCain’s head. According to cost-health helper, the removal of a tumor can range in price.