John McCain McHypocrite Strikes Again: Lying About His Health Plan
John Sidney McHypocrite is a real piece of work. Lying, flip-flopping, clueless...it goes on and on.
Two of his latest hypocrisies:
From the LA Times: "McCain, meanwhile, focusing on an issue usually the purview of Democrats, said today that he wanted to address the healthcare crisis by giving families a $5,000 federal tax credit to go shopping for insurance on the open market.
" 'Insurance companies could no longer take your business for granted, offering narrow plans with escalating costs,' he said during a speech at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla. 'It would help change the whole dynamic of the current system, putting individuals and families back in charge, and forcing companies to respond with better service at lower cost.'
Where has Mr. Magoo been? Hasn't he heard that $5,000 per family in federal tax credit won't make a dent.
As an article in USAToday hightlights: "The average cost for a family health insurance policy topped $10,000 for the first time this year...
"Conducted annually by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation, the survey highlights a growing concern: Rising health care costs are pricing more consumers and employers out of coverage.
"The Kaiser survey found three out of five employers (60%) offered coverage, down from 69% five years earlier, with most losses in small companies. Among employers with 200 or more workers, 98% offer health coverage.
"Growth in health insurance costs outpaced inflation and wage growth.
So, McWealthy's proposal is for a $5,000 tax credit for health insurance when a family of four struggles to pay for: skyrocketing food prices, through the roof gasoline prices; the monthly mortgage.
And McSOB really wants to stick it to working Americans. As Roger Hickey at Campaign for America's Future writes, "So McCain wants to tax workers’ health care premiums that are paid for by employers....
"And they have adopted the most extreme right-wing ideological approach, premised on the idea that the big problem in health care is that Americans have too much insurance – in their words, we don’t have enough “skin in the game” – and that only when we have to buy health care with money that comes directly out of our own pockets will consumers force doctors, hospitals and insurance companies to become more efficient.
"That chaotic loss of health security is exactly what McCain intends to happen. He wants us all to buy insurance not as part of a group—like an employee group or a co-op—that can negotiate for better coverage at lower premiums, but as individuals, at the mercy of the private insurance companies.
"And get this: McCain wants to abolish the regulations that currently exist in most states that require companies to insure people with pre-existing conditions, provide benefits that don’t exclude some medical conditions, and prevent them from charging huge premiums for crumby benefits. How would he do this? By “giving people the freedom” to buy insurance in other states with weaker regulations."
As for his insurance shopping competition, J. Goodrich at The Nation has already burst that McClueless balloon: "...John McCain has a proposal to cut health care costs by increasing competition in the markets. His idea is that competition would drive the price of insurance so low that most everybody could afford coverage! No need for the government to poke its nose where it is not wanted, and the conservatives surely don't want it meddling with the markets.
"There's a sense of deja vu about McCain's proposal. Haven't we been injecting competition into the health insurance markets for a very long time? Even the establishment of the government Medicare and Medicaid programs in the 1960's had a pro-competitive edge, because it removed from the commercial markets the most expensive and the poorest paying cases, leaving them with the most lucrative consumers to insure. The Health Maintenance Organization movement of the 1970's was another injection of that competitive hormone into the insurance markets in the form of prepaid group plans which combined insurance with the provision of care. What additional forms of competition has McCain invented that health economists never dreamt about?
"What insurers would really love to do is to skim the cream off the market by only insuring the young and healthy (hence the advertisements about maternity care and sports medicine by prepaid group plans). Well, not really, but a very cynical insurer might want to do just that, and it is not impossible to imagine a market outcome where all the high-risk customers are left without insurance altogether, except for the few, such as Elizabeth Edwards and John McCain, who can pay very large sums for the necessary insurance coverage."
And then McWealthy, accompanied by his beer heiress wife, took his hypocrisy on tour.
From ThinkProgress: "Kicking off his 'Call to Action Tour' today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) toured Miami Children’s Hospital....
"McCain’s use of the Florida children’s hospital to launch his health care-focused tour is ironic considering McCain’s recent vote against expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The expansion that McCain opposed would have extended coverage to a significant portion of Florida’s 658,000 uninsured children.
"The expansion passed despite McCain’s protestations, but President Bush vetoed it in October, which McCain said was the “Right call by the president.” At the time, pediatricians around the country protested Bush’s veto, including doctors at Miami Children’s Hospital..."
John McWealthy McHypocrite is a liar, out of touch, ignorant, clueless, possibly demented, certainly illogical and dangerous, and without a shred of integrity.
Two of his latest hypocrisies:
From the LA Times: "McCain, meanwhile, focusing on an issue usually the purview of Democrats, said today that he wanted to address the healthcare crisis by giving families a $5,000 federal tax credit to go shopping for insurance on the open market.
" 'Insurance companies could no longer take your business for granted, offering narrow plans with escalating costs,' he said during a speech at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla. 'It would help change the whole dynamic of the current system, putting individuals and families back in charge, and forcing companies to respond with better service at lower cost.'
Where has Mr. Magoo been? Hasn't he heard that $5,000 per family in federal tax credit won't make a dent.
As an article in USAToday hightlights: "The average cost for a family health insurance policy topped $10,000 for the first time this year...
"Conducted annually by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation, the survey highlights a growing concern: Rising health care costs are pricing more consumers and employers out of coverage.
"The Kaiser survey found three out of five employers (60%) offered coverage, down from 69% five years earlier, with most losses in small companies. Among employers with 200 or more workers, 98% offer health coverage.
"Growth in health insurance costs outpaced inflation and wage growth.
This year, the average annual premium for family coverage hit $10,880, with employers paying an average of 74% of that cost and workers paying the rest. Workers this year paid on average $2,713 toward family coverage, or $1,094 more than they paid five years ago, the survey found."
So, McWealthy's proposal is for a $5,000 tax credit for health insurance when a family of four struggles to pay for: skyrocketing food prices, through the roof gasoline prices; the monthly mortgage.
And McSOB really wants to stick it to working Americans. As Roger Hickey at Campaign for America's Future writes, "So McCain wants to tax workers’ health care premiums that are paid for by employers....
"And they have adopted the most extreme right-wing ideological approach, premised on the idea that the big problem in health care is that Americans have too much insurance – in their words, we don’t have enough “skin in the game” – and that only when we have to buy health care with money that comes directly out of our own pockets will consumers force doctors, hospitals and insurance companies to become more efficient.
"That chaotic loss of health security is exactly what McCain intends to happen. He wants us all to buy insurance not as part of a group—like an employee group or a co-op—that can negotiate for better coverage at lower premiums, but as individuals, at the mercy of the private insurance companies.
"And get this: McCain wants to abolish the regulations that currently exist in most states that require companies to insure people with pre-existing conditions, provide benefits that don’t exclude some medical conditions, and prevent them from charging huge premiums for crumby benefits. How would he do this? By “giving people the freedom” to buy insurance in other states with weaker regulations."
As for his insurance shopping competition, J. Goodrich at The Nation has already burst that McClueless balloon: "...John McCain has a proposal to cut health care costs by increasing competition in the markets. His idea is that competition would drive the price of insurance so low that most everybody could afford coverage! No need for the government to poke its nose where it is not wanted, and the conservatives surely don't want it meddling with the markets.
"There's a sense of deja vu about McCain's proposal. Haven't we been injecting competition into the health insurance markets for a very long time? Even the establishment of the government Medicare and Medicaid programs in the 1960's had a pro-competitive edge, because it removed from the commercial markets the most expensive and the poorest paying cases, leaving them with the most lucrative consumers to insure. The Health Maintenance Organization movement of the 1970's was another injection of that competitive hormone into the insurance markets in the form of prepaid group plans which combined insurance with the provision of care. What additional forms of competition has McCain invented that health economists never dreamt about?
"What insurers would really love to do is to skim the cream off the market by only insuring the young and healthy (hence the advertisements about maternity care and sports medicine by prepaid group plans). Well, not really, but a very cynical insurer might want to do just that, and it is not impossible to imagine a market outcome where all the high-risk customers are left without insurance altogether, except for the few, such as Elizabeth Edwards and John McCain, who can pay very large sums for the necessary insurance coverage."
And then McWealthy, accompanied by his beer heiress wife, took his hypocrisy on tour.
From ThinkProgress: "Kicking off his 'Call to Action Tour' today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) toured Miami Children’s Hospital....
"McCain’s use of the Florida children’s hospital to launch his health care-focused tour is ironic considering McCain’s recent vote against expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The expansion that McCain opposed would have extended coverage to a significant portion of Florida’s 658,000 uninsured children.
"The expansion passed despite McCain’s protestations, but President Bush vetoed it in October, which McCain said was the “Right call by the president.” At the time, pediatricians around the country protested Bush’s veto, including doctors at Miami Children’s Hospital..."
John McWealthy McHypocrite is a liar, out of touch, ignorant, clueless, possibly demented, certainly illogical and dangerous, and without a shred of integrity.
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