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McCain Nudges Obama Toward His Party’s Health Plans (RINOcare rising from the ashes of Obamacare?)
The New York Times ^ | 2010-01-25 | Joseph Berger

Posted on 01/24/2010 2:13:52 PM PST by rabscuttle385

In the wake of a political setback for national health care legislation, Senator John McCain, the losing candidate in the last presidential election, advised his victorious 2008 adversary on Sunday that the way to get meaningful changes passed is to “start from the beginning” by meeting with Republicans.

Mr. McCain, a Republican from Arizona, said on the CBS news program “Face the Nation” that President Obama should sit down with Republican leaders and begin adopting some of their ideas for improving the nation’s health care system such as overhauling medical malpractice lawsuits, allowing residents of one state to buy health insurance from a company in another state, and granting tax credits for people who purchase health insurance on their own.

The Democrats last week lost a Senate seat in Massachusetts that had given them the 60 votes needed to block a Republican filibuster of a health care bill that appeared on the verge of passage by both houses. Mr. McCain was asked what would Republicans do in response.

“We’d be willing to sit down and start over from the beginning with genuine negotiations,” he replied. “There are things we can agree on.”

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To: Rome2000
Well, this crazy SOB campaigned on taxing health benefits.

Of course the COM-SYMP Obama and his PR man Goebbels/Axelrod used it against him in the campaign, but they all now agree that its a GREAT IDEA!!.

I know it, and I'm angry. What I'm waiting for is someone like Goldwater to come along and gut the Federal government.

How many departments, agencies, and taxes were supposed to be "temporary?" We need to start over.

I feel like this guy:


61 posted on 01/24/2010 3:35:00 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Bad Jack Bauer

“The Party needs a good purge”

I couldn’t agree more. Scott Brown is the model for success. RINOs be gone.


62 posted on 01/24/2010 3:44:26 PM PST by Starboard
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To: rabscuttle385

McCain’s time is over. He has to step aside and let others take the lead in moving forward private sector solutions to health reform.
Progressive (socialist) solutions are unacceptable!


63 posted on 01/24/2010 3:45:42 PM PST by orinoco
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To: All

Watch for Romney to jump on this too.

He has to. He is permanently tied to his version of ObamaCare in Mass.


64 posted on 01/24/2010 3:48:41 PM PST by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: flintsilver7
"These are all good ideas. They are conservative ideas that will most definitely save money."

Exactly! These were the things that I recall most everyone on Freerepublic was pushing for.

What a fickle bunch so many of the Freepers appear to be.

65 posted on 01/24/2010 3:49:06 PM PST by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: flintsilver7

These are all good ideas. They are conservative ideas that will most definitely save money.

^^^
Yes, if they are done at the state level they would be great. The federal government should NOT be involved in health care at all.


66 posted on 01/24/2010 3:49:36 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: catnipman

Republicans should demand that ANY further discussion of healthcare issues is absolutely contingent upon Democrat support for the immediate passage of tort reform, with full transparancy and Republican participation in the process. Of course this will never happen.


67 posted on 01/24/2010 3:50:24 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Cobra64
We've had the Bush's, who never met an apparatchik they didn't like, interspersed between 2 terms of the socialist crook Klintoon and now the marxist crypto muslim HUSSEIN BARAKA.

As a result, the government apparatchiki have grown to obscene proportions.

You are absolutely correct, the next GOP candidate must run on a platform of eliminating the Departments of Energy, Education, and Labor for starters, with a freeze on Federal hiring.

68 posted on 01/24/2010 3:55:00 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Rome2000
When I broach the topic with my wife of eliminating 90% of federal agencies and departments and firing 90% of the remaining personnel, she thinks I'm to "radical."

I remind her that the "radicals" are the ones who dreamed up all this communist bull-shit.

69 posted on 01/24/2010 4:13:13 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: rabscuttle385

Obama would never sit down with republicans. A racist sitting with non racists? Only in the beer garden when he has to cover his a$$.


70 posted on 01/24/2010 4:13:37 PM PST by taxesareforever (Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
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To: rabscuttle385

“We can do socialism better.” — signed, John McCain, Scott Brown, Mitt Romney


71 posted on 01/24/2010 4:17:51 PM PST by EternalVigilance (With God, Obama can't hurt us. Without God, George Washington couldn't save us.)
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To: Califreak

“How many of us would like to give McCain a real hard nudge?”

Off a short pier?


72 posted on 01/24/2010 4:34:06 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: Cobra64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_executive_departments


73 posted on 01/24/2010 4:35:01 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Jim Robinson

McCain has gone out of his way to destroy the conservative movement, and thus the country. Nothing is beneath him.


74 posted on 01/24/2010 4:36:35 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: Cobra64

“That bastard McCain is driving me nuts. RINO-Care and Amnesty for ILLEGAL immigrants?”

Among a long list of subversive things, yes.


75 posted on 01/24/2010 4:41:04 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: rabscuttle385
McCain will have lotsa help too.


76 posted on 01/24/2010 4:52:26 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: All

The danger here is that there is a freefall between McCain, Snowe, and Collins.

Each wants to be the deal-maker. McCain aggressively working to pass a health care bill can bring a Snowe or Collins in to short circuit that.....

We could end up with the ObamaCare intact less a few RINO provisions added or deleted.

Daner Will, Danger.

McCain is making it a possibility that we get outmaneuvered here...and then there is the wildcard of Brown who can tricked by the conniving Dems.


77 posted on 01/24/2010 4:57:47 PM PST by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: flintsilver7
... overhauling medical malpractice lawsuits, allowing residents of one state to buy health insurance from a company in another state, and granting tax credits for people who purchase health insurance on their own

Has McCain ever proposed these ideas before? These are long overdue.

Must be an election coming up in the not so distant future.

78 posted on 01/24/2010 5:01:07 PM PST by jla
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To: servantboy777
To: Arizona residents

Scott Brown is the right man, at the right time, for Massachusetts.

The right man at this time for Arizona is JD Hayworth.

79 posted on 01/24/2010 5:05:03 PM PST by jla
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To: rabscuttle385

McCain, always ready to snatch defeat from victory.


80 posted on 01/24/2010 5:15:26 PM PST by calex59
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