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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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I absolutely LOOOOOOVE this quote - and the fact that it was written by John McCain, without provocation, BEFORE the banking collapses of the last ten days.....FOR PUBLICATION IN A CURRENT ISSUE. You can go out to any decent newsstand, and purchase this magazine issue RIGHT NOW. This is actually what Senator St. Maverick "Bomb-Bomb" McBush REALLY THINKS.
Put more succinctly - as Obama did on the campaign trail today - John McCain wants to do for your healthcare what Washington has done for banking in the last decade.
Asstonishing.
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
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As Obama said during the Democratic convention: I don't think John McCain doesn't care about the plight of the average American.....I just think he doesn't GET IT.
Becoming clearer every single day, Barack. As evidenced by this. The "Palin Bounce" is over. In fact, it's Palin' in comparison to the increasing "surge" (to co-opt one of McBush's favorite phrases) of support that Obama is again realizing, now that the temporary infatuation with the truth-challenged Alaskan with the goofy accent and the secessionist husband is over.
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
I have previously requested some kind of a roll call on those votes that blocked the legislation.
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"IT looks like it died in committee"
Yup. McCain let it die. He dropped it. That is why he admitted he didn't see this financial crisis coming.
Now, Obama also proposed mortgage reforms back in 2006. http://obama.senate.gov/news/060215-obama_durbin_pr/
If you look at who they've got today as their economic advisors, Obama has the much better team. He has Volker, Rubin, Buffett and other A-level folks. McCain has discredited Phil Gramm who called us a nation of whiners in a mental recession right as this crisis was hitting us (McCain said he dumped Phil for that comment but Phil is still an advisor and sitting in the favored front row at at least one McCain speech). McCain's campaign also says he dumped Fiorina, the person who ran HP until she got tossed because the stock price and company stagnated under her. Fiorina admitted that McCain could not run a large corporation. McCain's other lead economic advisor made the news the other day when he claimed McCain invented the Blackberry!
So, I'll go with team Obama over team McCain any day. And we haven't even started with Biden versus Palin. McCain and Bush are the ones who got us into this mess and can't seem to get us out . . .
Just looked up the band Duck Soup. Sounds kind of Kenny G-ee. Not bad. I like straight ahead Jazz a bit more. When I think of Duck Soup, I think of the movie, and it's signifying screwed up politics (it also inspired Woody Allen's Bananas). That's the meaning behind my handle, Soupyduck.
*** Actually McCain said he did not see the sub-prime crisis coming, just like he said he did not see the Internet bubble coming before they, just like he said he doesn't know anything about the economy.
Lie...McCain never said that. As for "seeing the sub-prime crisis coming"...it was the Democrats who had oversight (and their hands in the till), not McCain. What he did see was problems with the lending practices of these institutions and tried to address them three years ago...and Bush two years before that, but the Dems didn't want to interrupt their liberal handouts, giving loans to people they knew couldn't afford it.
*** The Republicans are now making up stories about how McCain is somehow qualified to deal with our economy. McCain's answer to the current crisis was to deny it,
You must be talking about Obama...who's answer to the crisis is to consult experts and then do...NOTHING. No plan, no idea...not even "hope and change."
*** then to say we should have a commission, which is ridiculous because a commission takes years to decide on anything while we need action now.
You probably missed it through the haze of propaganda and Obamanothing speeches filled with blame but no ideas or solutions. McCain has proposed solutions to deal with the crisis NOW...and the Treasury Department is adopting them. As far as Obama's plan?...Tough to impliment "no comment" in a crisis. But he's such a neophyte that it's probably best if he just shuts up.
And with regard to appointing a "commission"...what a crazy idea to have experts and professionals investigate a problem in depth, analyze the problems and devise effective long-term solutions to rectify them.
*** McCain is really weak on the economy. That is the truth.
Obama has only slightly less economic experience than he does foreign policy experience. Obama has no plan. Obama has no solutions. Obama has surrounded himself with experts and a WEEK after the crisis began, Obama has NOTHING to offer. That's the truth.
*** Thanks, but the blog post didn't show how the voting (roll call) played out. I want to see which Democrats voted for and against the bill. Republicans controlled Congress, but it looks like that bill never was voted upon on the floor. If it was voted upon on the floor, then do you have the roll call? Otherwise, I think that the Democrats did not even get a chance to block/impede the bill. Therefore, the bill was just dropped by the Republicans. After all, they controlled Congress, and they could at least get to the point where they could get a vote on a bill so that they could then complain about the Democrats not supporting the bill. No such vote seems to have taken place.
I'm sure you can find it if you google hard enough. Post it here when you find it. There are lots of ways to block a bill. Let me know when you've got that roll call info.
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