McCain With Lifetime Government Health Care; Screws Regular Americans

Earlier in the month I wrote this about John McBush, "John Sidney McWealthy, who has been covered by government funded health care his entire life--as the son of a naval officer, a naval officer, a member of Congress, has the hubris to lie to the American people about his health care plan which would make working Americans have to struggle even harder on their own and increase the ranks of the uninsured because it would be more unaffordable.

And in April I wrote about McDouble-Talk lying about his health care plan: "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."

ThinkProgress has more on McHypocrite's awful health care plan: "An analysis of John McCain’s health care plan by Cato Institute’s Michael F. Cannon argues that “Sen. McCain’s plan is a lot better than his critics suggest.” We disagree. Here’s why:
McCain’s Plan Would Weaken The Ability Of Sick People To Keep Their Private Insurance: The main reason (not mentioned by Cannon) that some people who develop health problems can renew their health insurance without seeing higher premiums is federal regulation through the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). States have improved on these regulations, offering more protections to sick consumers of private health insurance, but John McCain, in his push for an unregulated national market, would undermine these additional protections.
McCain’s Plan For The Uninsurable Is Woefully Inadequate: While only 5% of non-elderly Americans participate in the individual insurance market, 56 million chronically ill people are currently covered by employer-based health insurance plans, which can absorb the cost of these high-risk individuals because their pools are diversified. McCain would eliminate the tax incentive to keep these plans active, and nudge many of these folks into the private market where insurers would be reluctant to cover them. McCain’s answer? Dubious “high-risk” pools. Cato’s answer? Thoroughly debunked “Health Savings Accounts.”
There Are Better Alternatives That McCain Opposes: Cannon argues that McCain’s plan “provide more secure coverage of high-cost conditions than the current job-based system does” — but the way to provide the best security is a method which McCain adamantly opposes: offer a competing non-discriminatory, flexible alternative to employee based coverage by letting any American join a system like the one members of Congress use to get their insurance.
John Sidney McLiar is just another Bushite, rich, elite, Republican snake oil salesman who doesn't give a damn about struggling regular working Americans and unaffordable health care in the US.  He has had health care coverage all his life courtesy of the government; screw the rest of toiling Americans.

 

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