John McCain’s Continuing Hypocrisy On Healthcare
Cliff Schecter May 1st, 2008
Roger Hickey has a great post at ourfuture.org on the “dangerous fraud” that is John McCain’s healthcare plan. As I point out ad nauseam in The Real McCain, McCain’s positions are not simply fraudulent. The “straight-talker” rarely limits himself to simple dishonesty.
First, read the email The McCain Campaign sent out today on this issue:
My Friends,
Today, there are 47 million uninsured individuals in the U.S., and nearly a quarter of them are children. High costs and limited access are the underlying, fundamental problems in our healthcare system.
As you know, both Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are touting outrageously expensive and unrealistic universal health care plans - a government monopoly over health care.
Unlike my opponents, I do not believe that all of our nation’s problems can be solved by turning control over to our government, with all the tax increases, new mandates and government regulation that come with that idea.
Today, our campaign began running a television ad focused on health care - that you can view by following this link - to ensure all Americans hear the truth about how I plan to tackle the challenges facing our nation’s health care system. To ensure this important ad is aired in as many markets as possible, I’m asking for your immediate financial assistance.
I believe the key to real reform is to restore control over our health care system to the patients themselves. Americans need new choices beyond those offered in employment-based coverage.
That’s why, as president, I will seek to encourage and expand the benefits of Health Savings Accounts, tax-preferred accounts that are used to pay insurance premiums and other health costs. These accounts put the family in charge of what they pay for.
In addition, I will reform the tax code to provide every family the option of receiving a direct, refundable tax deposit - effectively $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 cash for families to offset the cost of insurance.
The reality is that both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama, in their haste to garner support for their so-called “solutions,” are promising more than they can deliver. And, once again, they are simply out-of-touch with the real problems facing our health care system and how to solve them.
Here are the facts: Under the Democrats’ plan, we will have all the problems, and more, of the current health care system - rigid rules, long waits and lack of choices - and we risk degrading the system’s great strengths and advantages, including the innovation and life-saving technology that make American medicine the most advanced in the world.
My friends, this is not my definition of real reform. I hope you will join me in my fight to tackle the real problems facing our nation’s health care system by making a contribution of $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000, or $2,300 to help fund this important ad.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
John McCain
A good rule of thumb: When John McCain says “my friends,” start looking for a bomb shelter. Another good rule of thumb when McCain utters this trite phrase: Dishonesty is about to morph into full scale hypocrisy.
Here is a man who has been on government healthcare his entire life (daddy was an Admiral)–all seven decades–who dares deride it by saying, “Unlike my opponents, I do not believe that all of our nation’s problems can be solved by turning control over to our government… .”
No, only his own healthcare is worthy of that.
In case you missed McCain’s position: Government healthcare is good enough to pay his hospital bills–with your “taxes” to quote him–but it is not good enough for the rest of us–oh and by the way, can you spare $1000 “my friends?” That means a lot coming from a guy who enjoys lounging at 8 different houses on his wife’s inherited dime, and laughably calls other candidates “elitist.”
With straight talk like that, who needs mendacity?
Cliff Schecter is the author of The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him And Why Independents Shouldn’t. Every time you buy a copy (for only $10!), an angel gets their wings.
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Oh, and you can buy The Real McCain here-
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0979482291/bookstorenow30-20
it’s scary to watch the MSM talking McSame up everyday he getting all the free air time he needs.the GOP the party of “family values”, maybe you need to look at McSame first wife & family,not much value their.
McCains flip flops such as his ex wife the Bush tax cuts, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, judges and Roe v. Wade, ethanol, and not least of all, torture.
McCain Argues for U.S. Troop Withdrawl from Somalia youtube.com/watch?v=o8TFKXHiefs He made a similar Senate Floor Speech about Haiti. …
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The two senators, both veterans, are sparring over increased education benefits for soldiers.
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 23:44
We all know that JOHN W. McSAME is a total hypocrite, but take a look at our spineless democrats, starting with CHUCK SCHUMER:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15325.html
Hedging on healthcare?
Posted April 24th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
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We know that both of the Democratic presidential candidates have ambitious healthcare plans. What we did not know is that congressional Dems, who expect to be in the majority next year, don’t sound especially optimistic that sweeping changes to the existing healthcare system will be possible.
It is still seven months before Election Day, but already senior Democrats are maneuvering to lower public expectations on the key policy issue.
In the back of their minds is the damage done to President Bush’s second term by his failed attempts to change the nation’s Social Security policy.
For some senators, the promises made by Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) outside of Washington may not match the political reality on Capitol Hill.
“We all know there is not enough money to do all this stuff,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), a Finance Committee member and an Obama supporter, referring to the presidential candidates’ healthcare plans. “What they are doing is … laying out their ambitions.”
Sen. Chuck Schumer (RD-N.Y.), part of the Senate Democratic leadership and a member of the Finance Committee, said, “Healthcare I feel strongly about, but I am not sure that we’re ready for a major national healthcare plan.” Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.), who sits on the House Ways and Means Committee, said “the money is not necessarily there right now.”
Jonathan Cohn noted:
For the last year, momentum for universal health care has been building. Most of the Democratic presidential candidates have endorsed the idea, at least in principle; Senator Ron Wyden has been building a bipartisan coalition behind his proposal; a wide array of interest groups have been agitating for it, if not for the sake of social justice than for the sake of cutting down on the cost of employee benefits; and polls show the public supports universal coverage at levels not seen since the early 1990s. […]
Still, this isn’t the last word on the subject. I just got off the phone with Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, who in recent years has done as much to promote the cause of universal coverage as any single person in politics. And he is not at all happy.
“I thought it was embarrassing,” Stern said. “I think it showed an incredible lack of appreciation for what most Americans are confronting every day in this health care system. … What was said in this article is not the kind of leadership that I think Americans are expecting after this election.”
Did you see the Bunk study stating 2/3 of doctors in America want National Health Care. The doctors who did this study also conducted one in 2002 and found that the majority of doctors did not want national health care, the problem with this is that the 2 question surveys drastically differ in there 2nd question. I found this article, 60% of Physicians Surveyed Oppose Switching to a National Health Care Plan, It’s worth a read.
http://www.ditchmitchky.com/1412/sick-around-the-world/
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/01/opinion_health
A mid-November Gallup poll found that the public is more dissatisfied than ever with out-of-control health care costs. An overwhelming 81 percent said they are dissatisfied with the cost of health care in this country, the highest figure recorded on this question since Gallup first started asking it in 2001.
Americans are definitely ready for the government to play a significant role in solving these health care problems. In the same mid-November Gallup poll, 64 percent of respondents said that it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have health care coverage, compared with only 33 percent who do not.
My wife was in the Hospital, bad cold had to go back to the emergency room to get shots for 4 days each day they billed her far a trip to the emergency room and blue cross paid the bill, we caught it they were only to charge her far the shot about $400. difference.Insurance co. don’t care what they charge just pass it on the people