20 mil + to lose healthcare under McCain

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Registered: 08-20-2008
20 mil + to lose healthcare under McCain
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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 7:53am

"A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/opinion/16herbert.html?ref=opinion

McCain is swimming in the opposite direction. Electing him would be a mistake.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 3:33pm
It's your prerogative if you feel Palin has more expirience, I don't happen to want a vice president
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Registered: 01-06-2001
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 5:59pm
I have never been pregnant...lol

 

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Registered: 08-24-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 7:11pm

I have never been pregnant...lol

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Registered: 08-21-2005
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 7:41pm

>>Honestly, I don't believe that. Here in the US, you will wait to see an GYN usually 6-9 months for a routine check-up. That's why I go to my primary care Dr. for my annual check-up. I like her better anyway.<<

Really? I just call mine up a few weeks before I'm due for my annual check-up. Sure, I usually spend an extra hour sitting in the waiting room because they're always behind schedule, but ... not six to nine months. My doctors' office has a much longer wait time for a first visit with a female doctor, but maybe 2-3 months.

Caroline
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Caroline

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Registered: 08-24-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 7:44pm
I can get in within a month or two for just a checkup - no problem!! My parents have to wait up to a year sometimes in Italy and they are almost 80.
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Registered: 08-21-2005
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 8:03pm

The WSJ also had a good column on this subject:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152292213639569.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop

Unfortunately, Health Affairs isn't open access, but you can read their abstracts critiquing both plans here:

http://content.healthaffairs.org

Currently, I get a really great health plan through my work, but if I were in a different situation, where I had really high premiums AND taxes on it? I'm young and healthy and I've noticed an increasing number of doctors in NYC don't even take ANY health insurance -- I'd probably look into signing up with one of those "concierge" practices. Which really is to the loss of my insurer/insurance pool. Paying tens of thousands of dollars a year is not really an option.

Caroline
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Caroline

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Registered: 07-03-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 8:08pm
So, you think I'm lying or exaggerating? Do you want the number, you can call them and ask for yourself. I'm telling you back in 1998 was the LAST time I called to get an appointment. I called in April, the soonest I could get an appointment for a routine exam was not until
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Registered: 08-20-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 10:08pm

"So always consider your source and why they write or do what they do."

Good point. To apply your standard to the Republican politicians right now, we should ignore everything they say. Look at what they've done. They've been failures.

Again to your point, look at McCain just today. McCain says we should appoint a commission to devise a regulatory approach to the financial crisis. This is from the guy who fought regulation tooth and nail, who has said he's a deregulator and that he's always against regulation.

On the topic of healthcare, McCain voted no on expanding healthcare for poor and underprivileged kids. Look at what he did. He voted against expanding healthcare coverage. Do you think he's really going to solve getting healthcare for the 40 million plus Americans who are currently totally exposed and one serious illness away from being destitute too? Or do you think it's more likely he'll keep fighting against healthcare for more Americans and we'll end up with 60 million plus uninsured under McCain?

So, again by your standard, we should look at McCain, what he says, what he does and ignore him.

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Tue, 09-16-2008 - 10:10pm

"Is he STILL attending that same church?"

No. And of course Republicans won't apply the same standard to Palin, who attended a church where they all had a grand old time speaking in tongues, not just listening to them.

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Wed, 09-17-2008 - 12:06am

(((it's looking like WE are going to elect the HONEST, compassionate, intelligent, patriotic, EXPERIENCED, Christian American Senator/War Hero, John McCain, to be our next President.)))

Well, the "you" in the "WE" need to tell John that the economy is broken, not fundamentally sound. And no, I know he wasn't calling the American worker a fundamental, so he just needs to cut the crap. lol.

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