McCain’s Health Care Proposal Doesn’t Have a Heart

by Mike Hall, Oct 30, 2008

We’ve all felt our hearts beat faster when the doctor’s delivering the diagnosis. Now the tests are back on Sen. John McCain’s health care plan—and they’ll send anyone’s heart racing.

In a new commercial (see video) from the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) and Health Care for America Now! (HCAN), a patients ’s heartbeat goes from a steady thump-thump to a rapid thumpity-thumpity as the doctor delivers the bad news about McCain’s health care plan.

He wants to tax the health care you get from your employer.

He wants to get rid of employer-based insurance, the insurance most people have.

He wants everyone to negotiate individually with the insurance companies.

The insurance companies won’t be required to cover anyone with pre-existing conditions.

Earlier this week, we reported that the McCain campaign even admits that the health coverage we get from our employers is “way better” than anything we could buy on our own with McCain’s health care “tax credit.” That’s because it doesn’t come close to making up the double whammy of his health care tax and the higher premiums we’d pay in the private market.

Now McCain also admits that his de-regulated, “free-market” plan would leave many without insurance.

Here’s what an Oct. 29 Washington Post analysis of the plan says:

He wants to let people buy health plans from insurance companies anywhere in the country, preempting state regulations that spell out whom insurance carriers must cover and what kinds of benefits they must provide. McCain acknowledges that such a free-market climate would inevitably freeze out some people with serious medical problems who are looking for insurance on their own.

Wonder what flaw in McCain’s health care plan he’ll admit to next?

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