DUers, please look at my LTTE re McCain and health care!

[CTyankee]

Tell me if I am missing something. Also, is there a clever way I can "innoculate" the letter against the "it's OK because he was a POW" response? Thanks, all!


To the Editor:

Why does John McCain tell the American voters that they don't want "big government-run health care"?

John McCain has such health care himself. He and his family going back two generations have had government health care. He had that same health care when he was diagnosed with melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, and during his treatment for the disease. He now aspires to the job of President of the United States, which also provides government run health care that is delivered by doctors who are government employees!

If government run health care is such a disaster for the American people, why does John McCain continue to have it? Even with a pre-existing condition, he surely has enough money to buy his own private plan and be seen by physicians in private practice. He married a fabulously wealthy heiress whose family fortune bankrolled the launch of his political career. He has choices that the vast majority of Americans could never dream of. Many end up in dire financial straits, bankruptcy and even poverty because they have a catastrophic health problem, such as cancer. At worst, John McCain might only have to sell one of his seven houses to pay for a private policy (if he could get one at all), while many Americans under similar circumstances risk the loss of the only house they will ever have.

Barack Obama offers a health care plan that gives Americans a choice of private and public health care. John McCain wants it both ways: a public plan that you and I pay for but not one that we could have ourselves.

:hi:

[Bennyboy]

1. That's very good.....

He was a POW you know?

[CTyankee]

2. I racked my brain last night trying to come up with something that

essentially said "And don't even TRY to respond to this letter by saying McCain was a POW!" But I just couldn't find the right words.