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| Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:22pm |
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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/mccain-on-banking-and-health/
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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Sopal
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*** Meanwhile, in stark contrast to McCain, one year ago Barack Obama proposed new regulations that would have prevented the mortgage crisis that led to the situation we find ourselves in today.
Is that how it works? For a US Senator to "propose new regulations" he sorta kinda mentions it in a speech? How cosmopolitan.
*** Specifically, Obama proposed a three step-solution: (1) more disclosure and accountability in housing market; (2) more oversight on ratings agencies; and (3) increase transparency across the board.
Yawn. Don't you just love Obama's "plans"...tired, old generalities with no idea how to actually make anything work.
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