Okaaaaay.....

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Registered: 03-25-2007
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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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 6:37pm
I'm not disposed to being bullied.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 6:45pm

Jack Kelly is a nationally-syndicated conservative columnist (not

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 6:49pm
Yes, I'm always amazed at the courage of the keyboard commando's!!!!!
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 6:52pm

*** 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.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 7:03pm
No need to troll websites looking for a retraction.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 9:53pm
John McCain and other Republicans are on record trying to curb this disaster. At the same time Democrats are on record opposing the bill and protecting their cash cows. So, if it turns out to be opinion, it's based on known FACTS.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 9:56pm
Are you referring to the bill which came up while the Republicans were in power in 2005 and has been discussed on other threads???
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:01pm
No, it's a different bill that didn't get passed. The one you are referring to passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support, I think it was 90-8. Biden voted for it but McCain actually wasn't there that day to vote. I think it's funny that the liberal bloggers are claiming that McCain "embraced" the bill since they can't say he actually voted for it. LOL. Biden did more than embrace it - he voted for it too, along with all the other Democrats there that day.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:03pm
Good for you!
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:05pm
What's stopping you from requesting it? Are you afraid he will be able to prove it?

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