McCain on the Issues - Health Insurance Reform

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[Squeako]

Hey, I'm voting for the A-hole. What more do you want?

You will vote for him and you will like it.

[sergeantdave]

I’m 100% in favor of doctors dispensing health care to patients.

[socialismisinsidious]

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[socialismisinsidious]

One thing I can say that might help you. Listen up. There were quite a few around here that were going to vote for McCain even though they couldn't stand him. They now are not going to. It wasn't by FReepers against McCain that made them change their minds to not vote for him.

Yup. I was one of them. Kept looking at the Democrat-Socialists and thought I HAVE to vote against them....and then McCain would open his fat mouth. It has become painfully obvious that he is really no different than the other two socialists running. We, as a nation, end up in the same place so may as well let history show that a Democrat was at the helm when this great nation was ruined by Marxism.

[dforest]

Exactly. I never did say I would vote for him, but to blame some FReepers for the conservative outrage at McCain is plain silly.

Everytime he opens his mouth anymore, I cringe before he even utters a word. LOL

[LadyNavyVet]

If you can’t see how open borders directly effects health care, then you must have graduated fifth from the bottom of your class.

[Gaffer]

He probably doesn’t get the significance of “fifth.” Too wrapped up in dogged standbyism........

[LachlanMinnesota]

So, a low income earner that pays $12,000.00 in health insurance premiums for his family for a good bluecross blueshield plan...due to low income, he pays low taxes. He sacrifices much else to have the health insurance.

If he is getting a tax credit, that normally means he has a dollar for dollar reduction in his taxes for the credit. For low income earners who pay no or little tax, are you saying the credit is limited to what they might pay in taxes?

My daughter makes a low income as a camp counselor, and she pays no income tax?

What good does a credit do her? zero.

[EveningStar]

You don’t need to think about the issues while discussing them. Just arm yourself with some slogans and epithets and fire away.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Are you seriously contending that the questions in #3 are NOT health care-related ones?

(crickets)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Are you seriously contending that the questions in #3 are NOT health care-related ones? (crickets)

He knows he was caught in a baldfaced lie, out in the harsh, bright light of day. What else can he do under the circumstances, really, save wriggle ineffectually (albeit entertainingly...? ;)

[Grunthor]

“The question remains: how is he going to pay for it?”

He’s going to raise taxes.

[Grunthor]

hehehehe

[ZX12R]

About par for the course for intellectualism FR these days. Let's grab a pitchfork and light the torch!

If, when you look at the candidates being shoved down our throats as choices, and you don't see plenty of reason to be upset, angry, depressed, and disillusioned, then you are missing something monumental. I mean...McCain? Whoever's shooting that other freeper, shoot me too.

[Bob J]

It is clear throughout McCains plan that individuals and families will be paying for health insurance out of their own pockets, many of his bullet points have to do with making it more affordable and more portable.

However, this doesn’t address the issue of the uninsured who may not buy it even if it is 50% the cost of today. The only way to do that is make it mandatory people HAVE insurance, but I don’t see that anywhere. Maybe it is part of “working with the states”.

[Bob J]

All I want to do is address the issues and the candidates plans on a sober, realistic basis.

[Bob J]

I’m not a cap and trade fan but at least it was reserved to US business’s only...unlike Kyoto which was a worldwide redistribute the wealth program.

[Bob J]

It’s not impossible but this will happen only when you make it mandatory to have health insurance AND make it more affordable. At least McCain is addressing these issues without a national health care welfare plan.

[Bob J]

I don’t agree with the tax credit for health payments, off your income is okay.

A doillar for dollar tax credit is just a welfare program that makes high earners pay. As for your daughter, my suggestion is to get a job where she earns more money. Her health insurance her her obligation, not mine.

[Bob J]

Any immigrant working in the US on a work visa or green card would be subject to the same provisions for health insurance as any other citizen.