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Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:22pm

Crazy:


 


http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/mccain-on-banking-and-health/


 


September 19, 2008,  7:24 pm
McCain on banking and health


OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this.


Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:



Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.


So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!>>>

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Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 12:47am

No...they'd both have to die or become incapacitated before Pelosi would step in.

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Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 12:50am

Do you have a link on that?

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Registered: 08-20-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 1:56am
Link?
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Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 3:35am
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Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 8:34am
Wow. I knew John McCain tried to stop it, but I was unaware about President Bush. Thanks for the links.
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In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 8:53am

In reading your blog post, I did find the places to go to look for this S.190 proposed legislation, and it seems that it was just a proposal to take

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Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 9:11am

I looked it up on Factcheck.org, but couldn't find it. Do you have a link?

Here is a link to John McCain's words on the floor. He obviously tried to do something about this before it was too late.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-16&bill=s109-190

And this is interesting and infuriating also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-_HlpZ8azA

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Registered: 07-03-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 9:20am
As usual, the Republicans make stories up to smear the Democrats, they have the mantra of "lets blame it all on the Democrats"
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Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 9:30am
Except for the fact that it is in the congressional record for all to see.
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Registered: 07-03-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 9:32am
I would like to read for myself that congressional record, not from somebody's article on it.

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