Where Clinton, Obama, and McCain Stand on Healthcare
Reader Comments
Typical conservative rhetoric
Again we see a blatant lack of awareness about what it's really like to be poor from Senator McCain. This idea for subsidising insurance purchases to increase the profits of the bloated insurance industry continues to ignore the fact that the truly poor will not use his $2500 to $5000 to purchase insurance. Instead it will go to past-due rent, ever-increasing utility payments and food and clothing. As long as the only concern conservative politicians have is providing write-offs for the wealthy, this is the kind of silver-spoon mentality policies we'll see coming out of Washington.
Go McCain
I shouldn't be poor, I should be dead, and would be if the Left had their way. I have to pay some gold digger money for "child" support every month for the disservice of taking my child away.
Funny thing is, I have had to sink or swim just like everyone else.
I will never be rich, but at least I can work for the rich. Yes, nothing is ideal but it's not a perfect world anyways.
Under the left's plan my research shows that I would get to pay for insurance right from my paycheck or in the form of taxes based on my GROSS present income (which doesn't take the fact that I pay HUGE amounts of so called "child" support out and still get taxed on it while the other party gets it tax free).
My GROSS present income is misleading, but I am sure the left already knows that.
Just another way to impoverish second class citizens like child support payors so that they can find their way to a jail cell.
Health insurance
We need to forget about private health insurance,and initiate the single payer plan,cast in the same mould as the canadian system.Why should we let insurance companies it profit and increase the cost of medical care.
Why not this...
Use a social system to HELP guarantee coverage for children and the elderly - family and employers should be required to pay some of the bill.
Require the health insurance industry to simplify their programs to make it easy for everyone to understand coverage. Also require an overhaul of their processing procedures because we all know IT IS A NIGHTMARE!
One trip to the ER, which took about 1/2 hour and one x-ray, took Regence Blueshield 7 months to process and about 20lbs of mail.
Put a very low price cap on premiums for healthy, nonsmoking, sober folks.
For sick people, like cancer patients or diabetics, employers and health insurance companies will have to bite the bullet.
McCain
John McCain's time has come and gone. He should be concern aout his own health and old age approaching. The guy has seen better days and all heroes have to find their statue in the park. This is a new age of new ideas, challenges and risk.We need new energyand clear thinking. I don't thik John McCain knows where he is half the time.
health care
please read "WHO KILLED HEALTH CARE "
Re Tonah Tonny of PA's comment
Do you really think Hillary Clinton knows where she is most of the time? This woman has her husband (a loser as President), her daughter (planning to get married herself) and anyone she can find making speeches for her. She knows she doesn't represent the "female" population of the country. I'm anxious to see the journal that is being published of her phone calls and conversations as "First Lady." What a title for her! The First Lady was Eve and I'm sure she could teach Hillary a thing of two. Why doesn't Hillary go talk to Hamas too. A nice, terrorist organization who would know what to do with her in a New York minute. New York is Hillary's state and she has done nothing here in four years except eat sausage sandwiches at the State Fair.
Re Ina Callery of NY's comment
I'm no Hillary supporter, but it just makes me laugh to see people "support" McCain by denigrating his would-be opponents. Bill Clinton was a "loser as president"? Well, he didn't cause the death of thousands and thousands of people in a useless war to protect oil interests and Halliburton. He didn't systematically erase our civil liberties. It took GW Bush to do that and much more. Like Bush, McCain has no health plan at all, just more giving to those who already have, at the expense of those who have not.
And if you're a McCain supporter, please don't indulge in that "first lady" argument. The second Mrs. McCain is the worst possible example of a political wife. She is a born-wealthy, empty-headed "mother" who couldn't pick her own kids out of a line-up. She was the bimbo McCain was cheating on his first wife with. She stole prescription drugs and worse. And as for McCain himself: being held in a prisoner camp doesn't make him a hero, it makes him a victim. I don't wish that on anyone, but let's not act like it makes him a hero or gives him any special skills, other than perhaps some mental issues.
McCain has no plan for healthcare because he won't do a thing about it. If Halliburton can't make money on it, then no Republican is interested in it. Clinton and Obama may have flawed ideas, but at least they have ideas.
Affordable Optional Insurance
Senator Obama believes that young, healthy adults such as myself are going to choose to buy insurance. He's wrong. We're a very lazy and unconcerned demographic. But we would hold no grudge if we were to be required to buy insurance to help spread the costs for everybody. Senator Clinton's plan makes the most sense to me.
HillaryCare
What is it that makes Senator Clinton think that mandatory health insurance will be any different than mandatory automobile insurance. Eventually, people will be paying a premium for very minimal coverage (not much better than no coverage at all) just to meet the requirements of the law. But, because people will be mandated to carry coverage, she will be able to say she brought America to a 100% insured population. But how will the average American truly benefit?
I'm not thrilled with any of the candidates' plans. The problems with health care need to be addressed within health care itself with reform. Plus, big business should be forced to offer even temporary employess or contractors the option to buy into their health care plans. Finally, how about we reform Medicaid so it is actually helping low-income people and not enabling them. Then offer a national affordable and effective healthcare .
