McCain Offers Market-Based Health Plan

[ShockediSay]

Source: Washington Post

TAMPA, April 29 -- Sen. John McCain on Tuesday rejected calls by his Democratic opponents for universal health coverage, instead offering a market-based solution with an approach similar to a proposal put forth by President Bush last year.

McCain's belief in the power of the free market to meet the nation's health-care needs sets up a stark choice for voters this fall in terms of the care they could receive, the role the government would play and the importance they place on the issue.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/04/29/ST2008042902873.html

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Buncha bull. I could afford insurance until I turned 60 and my premiums
went through the roof. I am now uninsured and praying for decent health.

Sounds like McCains lobbyists are in the middle of this "choice of health
insurance." Rest assured, all the 'choice' is with the insurance companies
and their lobby lawyers.

[mcctatas]

1. Mccain is a douchebag...

but I honor his service to our country......

[acmavm]

15. Dammit. I was going to call him a douchebag. You beat me to

it.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

24. I believe "fucktard" is still available...

Would you like to call him that? If you'd rather not, I will...

[acmavm]

25. Okay, I claim dibs.

Fucktard, Fucktard, bush** is a Fucktard.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. If McCain gets elected

then everybody who either voted for him, or didn't bother to vote at all, should get an automatic Darwin prize if they die from a preventable cause because of inadaquate health coverage.

McCain aught to take his health care philosophy to its logical conclusion, and work to legalize and subsidize euthanasia. It's far more humane than the alternative.

[Gman]

3. Great

that's all we phucking need.

[LibDemAlways]

4. He wants to do away with employer-based health care in

favor of some sort of ridiculous "You go out and find coverage and buy it" plan. I can imagine the big insurance companies will be falling all over themselves to insure people with pre-existing conditions, especially biggies like cancer and heart-disease.

I would much rather see single-payer than the hodgepodge that exists today, but McCain's "plan" is simply laughable.

[area51]

5. McSame's belief in the power of the free market ... for healthcare...

F the "free market"! That's why we're in this godamned mess where people are dying every day due to lack of healthcare! :mad: Free market = doesn't work; free market = dead people. Isn't this the "definition of insanity", that McSame is trying the free market shit, when it's shown year after year that it neither (a) works, nor (b) keeps prices down???

[DFW]

6. I can hear it now, the McCain health initiative"No patient left alive"

[ozymandius]

7. Of course he does (recommend a market approach).

He needs that insurance industry campaign cash.

[WillParkinson]

8. This plan might work...

After all, they've done so well with gas prices and stuff. I mean what's wrong with letting them take a chance with our lives?

:sarcasm:

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Is that another way of McCain saying he'll get rid of Medicare and Medicaid?

[Vinca]

10. McCain's nightmare nonplan might be what we need to finally get

the masses to agree to universal, single payer healthcare. Once Bubba's employer stops providing health insurance and he sees the "death" tax becoming a reality in his life (even though he's too poor and it never will), maybe he'll come around to that nasty idea of "socialized" medicine.

[bemildred]

11. We already have "market based" health plans, they blow chunks. nt

[Turbineguy]

12. As in

If we get healthy, they go broke?

Save the economy! Get sick today!

[NewJeffCT]

13. More proof that McCain = Bush

now, if we can just get the media to start saying that.

[lakeguy]

14. health care for profit doesn't work. nt

[ramapo]

16. An absurd "solution"

His "solution" is nothing more than reducing the cost from completely unaffordable to just unaffordable. It does nothing to address the huge corporate bureaucracies that collect and distribute billions of dollars. Sickening....

[Hugin]

17. "the power of the free market to meet the nation's health-care needs "

Just like the 'Free Market' fixed up the Mortgage Crisis.... Dumbass. :eyes:

[Nickster]

23. "We're #37!, We're #37!" YAY!

[Toucano]

18. Laughable!

They're not even finished with the so-called plan.

And he's been running for president for how many years?

"We'll have it all worked out sometime after November", is what I bet they'll say.

[trof]

19. McCain has had free or subsidized coverage since birth.

As a dependent of a naval officer, as a naval officer, and as a representative and senator.

But what's good enough for John is too good for the rest of us.

[mainegreen]

20. Illustrating his fundamental misunderstanding of the different economic forces at work ..

in supply and demand in healthcare vs say a normal product.

Normal Product:
Company has something; the will loose money on it unless they can get someone to take it.

Health care:
Insurer normally gets paid for giving nothing; looses money if someone actually wants something.
See the difference lurking right wing morons? See why unfettered, unregulated capitalism CAN NEVER PROVIDE WORKING HEALTH CARE?

[gatorboy]

21. Welfare McCain gets government sponsored healthcare when he can afford to pay for his own.

[LibDemAlways]

22. Isn't that the truth. And he collects a hefty "disability" pension

from the military on top of his Senate salary. It's ok for him to gorge at the public trough, but everyone else is on their own.

What a hypocrite.