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Kilgore: McCainCare Equals BushCare
Submitted by SteveKier on April 30, 2008 - 10:47am.
Ed Kilgore writes this today at The Democratic Strategist:
McCainCare Equals BushCare
In non-Jeremiah-Wright related political news, John McCain has re-released his health care plan, and the bottom line is that if follows George W. Bush's most recent proposals, which were assessed by most health care experts as representing some point along the spectrum that leads from unserious to dangerous.
Like Bush's plan, McCain's focuses on replacing the employer subsidy for health care with tax incentives for the individual purchase of health insurance. Thus it arguably represents an attack on the very idea of group health insurance purchasing, throwing federal resources into subsidies for the expensive and highly discriminatory individual market. This is somehow supposed to hold down costs.
Read the rest here.