Okaaaaay.....

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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: 07-03-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:33am

I know a lot of people do have misconceptions about Canada and it's Health plans. I have e-mailed and even chatted with a lot of Canadians. I've been to Nova Scotia, and I loved it there. I worked with a gal who was a speech therapist who visited there, Halifax, NS and they liked her so much and what she had to offer, they invited her to relocate there, helped her find a place to live, gave her a job at the college.


We have friends who's wife is from Cornwall, Ontario. she married my DH's co-worker, they met online. She is a lovely person, we get together a few times a year. She did say for elective surgeries you will wait longer, and she had a problem with her knee. She had a proceedure done in Ontario, and it didn't quite do the trick, but it was tried first, before knee replacement was recomended. She was already living here before she had both knees replaced. She is doing fine now, BUT, she STILL had to wait

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Registered: 05-10-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:39am

<<<President Bush proposed regulatory reforms in 2003, but Congress took no action. In 2005, John McCain and three other GOP senators proposed a strong reform bill. It died when Democrats threatened a filibuster. Democrats opposed reform in part because they feared it would mean fewer loans to poor people.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:44am

That statement was taken soooooooo out of context! You really should stop reading those left wing blogs. If you read the actual article (which I did), everything he said was reasonable and rational. He was talking about being able to purchase your insurance from an out of state company - which isn't one of the problems we are seeing today in the baking industry.

Here is the entire quote:

"I would also allow individuals to choose to purchase health insurance across state lines, when they can find more affordable and attractive products elsewhere that they prefer. 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. Consumer-friendly insurance policies will be more available and affordable when there is greater competition among insurers on a level playing field. You should be able to buy your insurance from any willing provider—the state bureaucracies are no better than national
ones. Nationwide insurance markets that ensure broad and vigorous competition will wring out excess costs, overhead, and bloated executive compensation."

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Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:46am
That wasn't the first time he was outnumbered by Republicans. At least he was on the right side. And HE is the one running for president. The Democrats are to blame because they threatened a filibuster, thus rendering this a waste of time.
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Registered: 07-03-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:52am
Does McCain realize that by buying Ins
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Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:52am

McCain will be more powerful as president. He will become the party leader, not just another senator.

I provided a link at the bottom of the post. It was published in the Toledo Blade. That is a main stream newspaper. That should be adequate. I think it's funny how the left is quick to believe whatever is published on left wing blogs, but don't believe a main stream paper if they print something contrary to their belief system.

From their online page:

Toledo Blade Newspaper
The Toledo Blade newspaper has been around for over 170 years. The Blade Newspaper is the older than the City of Toledo itself. In the City of Toledo, the Toledo Blade is the only daily newspaper. The Toledo Blade covers about 14 counties in northwest Ohio and parts of southeatern Michigan. The Toledo Blade is "One of America's Great Newspapers." The current owners of the Toledo Blade are the Block Family. The bought the Toledo Blade from the Locke family in the mid 1920s.

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Registered: 07-03-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:56am

Likewise, the Right is quick to believe EVERYTHING they read in Right-wing Conservative blogs!

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Registered: 10-29-2003
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 11:01am

No healthcare plans are without their problems.


I won't deny that.

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Registered: 05-10-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 11:15am

I read your link.

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Registered: 09-16-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 11:29am
HE is running as a MAVERICK - not very maverickish to back down under a mere threat of filibuster is it? Should have allowed it to go to filibuster - if indeed it would have - then he would have been able to say he tried - otherwise he didn't really try - again plugging up a hole in the dam with a piece of bubble gum is not really trying.

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