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: 09-16-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 7:30pm
So Jimmy Carter wrote the bill and brought it to the floor for a vote? Interesting.
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Registered: 07-25-2006
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 7:34pm
Was it deregulation or was it the Community Reinivestment Act that Bill Clinton gave us?


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Registered: 11-11-1999
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 9:11pm

Was it deregulation or was it the Community Reinivestment Act that Bill Clinton gave us?


If he gave us anything, it was with an awful lot of help.


104th Congress 1995-1997


Senate-Republicans-52 Democrats-48


House-Republicans-230 Democrats-204


105th Congress 1997-1999


Senate-Republicans-55 Democrats-45


House-Republicans-228 Democrats-206


106th Congress 1999-2001


Senate-Republicans-55 Democrats-45


House-Republicans-223 Democrats-211


107th Congress 2001-2003


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Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Registered: 08-31-2003
In reply to: sopall1953
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 11:05pm
I'm assuming that it has much to do with the same reason Pelosi et al have not managed a heck of a lot, including ending the Iraq war and impeaching Bush since they took over.
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