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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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Another straw man.
*** Straw man? One thing he's done is not seek advice from Phil Gramm who is behind this mess -
No, Obama surrounds himself with a panel of economic experts and more than a week after the "crisis" began he emerges with this stunning plan to do...nothing. Wadda marroon! Presidents can't vote "present."
And as for who's "behind" this mess...the attempts at reform by Republicans and the Democrat protection of Fannie and Freddie has already been well documented.
*** future Treasury Secretary - give me a break....
It's funny to see the libs get in such a tizzy over Gramm just because he had the stones to call your whining..."whining."
*** I see your conveniently leaving out AIG and Lehmann - that's ok - it would not add to your "straw man."
Fannie and Freddie are the core of the problem.
This is what I have been wondering too, oldfaithfulmom. The Dems complain
The record shows that it was Republicans and only Republicans that tried to stop the insanity
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