"Everything's fine," McCain told reporters during a news conference. "Like most Americans, I go see my doctor fairly frequently." http://www.politico.com/...
I've received a bunch of emails about the McSame performance yesterday on This Week and specifically what he said about healthcare.
If you require only one example of our worthless traditional media, it's this. McSame's condescending, elitist and ill-informed statements about healthcare have been barely reported.
June 19, San Francisco, massive rally against AHIP, check back for details.
Here's a piece from one of the more outraged emails I received.
oh honey, you need to get McCain's deplorable performance on healthcare on This Week on youTube and posted. George asked him about affordable healthcare, McCain went on some typical rant about how awful goverment healthcare would be, even threw in the old 'look at Canada' shit. Then George asked him why he and his family were on free government healthcare, and the little prick sputtered and stumbled and then said, I shit you not, that he wasn't on government healthcare while he was held prisoner in Vietnam. That was the extent of his response.
What follows is the transcript of the healthcare piece of the interview and that portion from YouTube as well. What McBush says is frightening.
Let's take a look. Here's the full extent of the healthcare questions. Sean George didn't ask any intelligent follow-ups as you might have suspected.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me move on to health care. That could be
the biggest difference between you and the Democrats this year.
Democrats say your tax credit plan will not come close to covering
everyone, and it especially won’t help people with preexisting health
conditions. Here is Elizabeth Edwards, wife of John Edwards.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ELIZABETH EDWARDS: The truth is, a health care policy that
covers everything but cancer doesn’t exactly do me a lot of good. And
John McCain and I have something in common — neither one of us would
be covered by his health care policy.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEPHANOPOULOS: Now, she went on to say that both of you are
going to be fine, because you have plenty of resources to pay for
health insurance, but for millions of Americans with preexisting
conditions, they won’t. Why not guarantee that anyone with a
preexisting condition should be able to get health care?
MCCAIN: We will, as part of our plan, have a special Medicaid
trust fund set up to help care for those people who are — who have
preexisting conditions. As you know, five chronic diseases consume 75
percent of the health care costs in America. We’re not leaving
anybody behind. But what we’re not doing is we’re not going to have a
big government takeover and mandates. They’ve tried that in other
countries. Both Senator Obama and Senator Clinton’s plans are big-
government solutions. But that’s true in everything that...
STEPHANOPOULOS: What’s wrong with government — what’s wrong
with government-run health care?
MCCAIN: And we continue to have these debates — what’s wrong
with it? Go to Canada. Go to England and you can find out what’s
wrong with it. Governments don’t make the right decisions. Families
make the right decisions.
STEPHANOPOULOS: One of the points Mrs. Edwards made in the Wall
Street Journal, she said that your whole life, you had government
health care. You were the son of a Naval officer, a Naval officer,
now a member of Congress. And her point is, why shouldn’t every
American be able to get the kind of health care that members of
Congress get or members of the military get?
MCCAIN:It’s a cheap shot, but I did have a period of time where
I didn’t have very good government health care. I had it from another
government.
(LAUGHTER)
MCCAIN:So, look, I know what it’s like in America not to have
health care. [nyceve editorial comment: no you don't, you tired, worn jackass] We know that Americans are hurting there as well. We’ve
got to make health care affordable and available. The difference,
again, between myself and the Democrats, and with all due respect,
Mrs. Edwards, I want the families to make the choices. They want the
government to make the choices. That’s a fundamental difference, and
we will continue to debate that issue.
But we can provide incentives.
MCCAIN:
You mentioned that it’s not enough, a $5,000 refundable
tax credit for every family in America. It’s a lot better than what
they’ve got today.
And if we can let them go across state lines, and get these
inflationary aspects of health care under control, which we can do,
then more Americans will have affordable and available health care.
Thanks to Scarce, the video is up on YouTube. Watch it and weep.
Here's your life during a McCain Administration.
Elected officials will continue to receive their heavily taxpayer subsidized Cadillac healthcare and even asking about whether this is appropriate is "a cheap shot".
No one with a pre-existing condition (just about every American), will be able to secure affordable healthcare.
You'll get a tax credit, and it's better than what "they get today." The they he condescendingly refers to is you and me.
Is the traditional media reporting this? Not on your life.
And this is the awful reality about purchasing healthcare for many Americans.
John McElite, meet Kathy and Henry Hamman.
Before Medicare, Sticker Shock and Rejection
IF you want to retire before you are 65 and eligible for Medicare, health insurance is vital to your plans. Without it, you risk losing everything.
. . .Usually, however, the best, least-expensive option is to buy an individual policy, but that can be problematic if you have pre- existing health conditions. Just ask Henry and Kathy Hamman.
The Hammans, both 61, left their jobs in Miami in 2005 to move to Sewanee, Tenn., where Mr. Hamman had gone to boarding school. They wanted to start a small business, enjoy a less stressful lifestyle and position themselves for retirement in a few years.
A few days later, their insurance agent called. BlueCross BlueShield had turned them down.
"We were stunned and flabbergasted," Mr. Hamman said. "I had only been in the hospital overnight twice in my entire life — once to have my tonsils removed and once for elective sinus surgery. Kathy had been in the hospital once for an elective procedure and another time when she was 11 years old to have her appendix removed. We are both runners."
Over the years, he said, he had occasionally dealt with "slightly elevated cholesterol," which was one reason BlueCross BlueShield rejected him. He said Mrs. Hamman was denied "because of slightly elevated blood pressure, which was easily controlled by inexpensive medication."
Luckily, when the denial came the Hammans were still within their eligibility period for Cobra, which they took advantage of despite the $833 premium. "It was good insurance; it paid almost everything," Mr. Hamman said. "But it was expensive."
. . .If you can’t get insurance of any kind in your state, and you don’t want to move, you should consider postponing your retirement, if you can, until you are eligible for Medicare. The fastest way to deplete your retirement savings is eating it up with medical costs. These bills account for almost half of the personal bankruptcies in the United States.
"Everything's fine," McCain told reporters during a news conference. "Like most Americans, I go see my doctor fairly frequently." http://www.politico.com/...
June 19, San Francisco, massive rally against AHIP, check back for details.
