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| Thu, 10-02-2008 - 11:04am |
Good morning all!
Not technically new here, but it's been awhile since I posted (basically since the 2004 election)
I was wondering if anyone can provide any links to articles specifically about John McCain's plans for healthcare if he is elected.
Thanks :)

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http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/19ba2f1c-c03f-4ac2-8cd5-5cf2edb527cf.htm
Right from his website
See? The free market at work! Anyone is free to choose from among these fine options! Ain't capitalism grand?
McCain's website tells only the good part of the story, not the WHOLE story.
A $5,000 credit for a family, yippee! Too bad the cost of insuring a family will be $12,000. The way McCain's plan is structured, it totally messes up the risk pools so that the healthy people will opt out of their employer plans. The employers will then be left with the old, sick guys and decide it's way to costly to continue providing health insurance as a fringe benefit. They'll either stop completely or raise the employees' premium contributions.
We would end up with MORE uninusured rather than less. What are people with pre-existing conditions supposed to do? McCain gets mucho dinero from the insurance industry. That's who he's looking out for. Not for you and me.
http://econ4obama.blogspot.com/2008/04/mccains-health-care-plan.html
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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM
Did you even read it?
OK, this made me giggle:
" and $5,000 for families to offset the cost of insurance. Families will be able to choose the insurance provider that suits them best and the money would be sent directly to the insurance provider. Those obtaining innovative insurance that costs less than the credit can deposit the remainder in expanded Health Savings Accounts."
Where on earth would a family get health insurance privately for anything resembling 5000 bucks a year?
part of the plan is also that health bennies will be taxed as income (which is completely reasonable, btw) therefore the 5000 buck tax credit. However, 5K will barely cover the cost of most employer-sponsored plans, never mind abot private insurance.
I'll use a McCain term, "I don't think you understand" For a young healthy person you could maybe get Health ins for maybe 8,000 for a family a year, but with moderate deductables, you may have to outlay a couple thousand before you get the better benefit of them paying 80-100%. For older couples, it will be a lot more costly, the average being 12,500
It does say to "offset the cost of insurance"
$30 copay ot dr's...and deductable is 500 per person and it pays for diagnostics like blood and lab and xray.
I typed in McCain and health care plan in a google search.
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