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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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In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:11pm
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Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 10:50pm
Why wouldn't a doctor in New York accept Blue Shield insurance bought in Mississippi?
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In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 9:59am
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Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 10:03am
Obviously he was or the bill would have passed.
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In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 10:11am
n/t
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Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 11:50am

<Obviously he was or the bill would have passed. >


Once out of committee, the bill was never voted upon.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 11:58am
That's because he was OUTNUMBERED! BTW, I have been researching this. It WAS the Democrats, not the Republicans who are to blame for blocking this bill. Republicans are on the record for being on board. Democrats are on record opposing it.


Edited 9/22/2008 12:00 pm ET by chillychillychilly
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In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 12:27pm

<That's because he was OUTNUMBERED! BTW, I have been researching this. It WAS the Democrats, not the Republicans who are to blame for blocking this bill. Republicans are on the record for being on board. Democrats are on record opposing it. >


Please feel free to share your research.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 1:21pm
I'll wait with you for the links - of course, that OPINION piece by Kelly probably says so - you know, the one about the democrats filibustering -
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In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 3:37pm

You know what is amazing?

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