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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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"Lie...McCain never said that."
Wow. I really don't know how you can keep saying McCain saw this economic crisis coming - you've got no explanation at all really. I just don't see how you and the Republicans can keep repeating that when the truth is that even Senator McCain admits that it caught him and his advisors by surprise. I think you should watch this again (I can only assume you have seen this widely seen video)
http://www.nhelects.com/NHPrimaryVideos.asp?MultiID=77&HTitle=VLTitle
Here is his summation:
"So, I’d like to tell you that I did anticipate it, but I have to give you straight talk, I did not.”
Please explain to me how Republicans can keep saying self-serving things that simply are clearly flat out wrong in a huge way.
Obama on the other hand saw a lot of this mess coming, but in the face of Republican stubborness and use of the filibuster in a way they decried the Dems for using, Obama could not push anything through.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/16/151421/072/286/600779
Maybe we would not have had to resort to our now massive 700 billion dollar bailout. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rescue_plan_seeks_700B_to_buy_0920.html
*** If the maverick was so concerned, why didn't he go to Frist and demand that Frist bring this up for a vote?
I might ask the same thing of Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtKTUsHrcm4
McCain wants low taxes and decreased government spending. That's good for everyone.
Obama wants to raise taxes, increase spending and have bigger government regulating more of your life. That's not good for anyone.
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"Lie...McCain never said that."
*** Wow. I really don't know how you can keep saying McCain saw this economic crisis coming - you've got no explanation at all really. I just don't see how you and the Republicans can keep repeating that when the truth is that even Senator McCain admits that it caught him and his advisors by surprise. I think you should watch this again (I can only assume you have seen this widely seen video)
I didn't say that McCain saw THIS "crisis" coming, I said, and provided links to, McCain's (and Bush's) recognition of a problematic situation concerning the lending practices of financial institutions and that they both tried to address them.
I also provided a link to Obama saying that he did see THIS "crisis" coming but he did nothing to "raise the alarm" to do anything about it.
*** Maybe we would not have had to resort to our now massive 700 billion dollar bailout. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rescue_plan_seeks_700B_to_buy_0920.html
Because of the failure of financial institutions that operate under Democrat oversight.
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