Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain: “Health Insurance Should Be Like Our Banking System”

September 22, 2008 in 2008 Election, Economy & Business, Healthcare, John McCain, Media, Regressives, Republicans

by jhwygirl

Well, geez. Here I was working on a healthcare piece about Republican Presidential Nominee Senator John McCain, and here he goes and says it – in his own words!

Via Left in the West, my friends.

Guess I’ll save my piece for some other time…I mean, what’s better than hearing it right from the candidate himself?

Whee! Deregulate!! Whooo hooo!

Any bets on how long it is before the American Academy of Actuaries takes it down off of its website?

4 Replies

  1. S&Co.

    September 22, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    Man, this government of ours, this Bush administration, our long Reagan-inspired slide into catastrophic debt, paranoia, greed, deregulation, and dysfunction, it’s all shaping up, at long last, like the climactic, nail-biting typhoon scene in that novel THE CAINE MUTINY.

    “We’re not in trouble,” said Queeg. “Come left to 180.”
    “Steady as you go!” Maryk said at the same instant. The helmsman looked around from one officer to the other, his eyes popping in panic. “Do as I say!” shouted the executive officer. He turned on the OOD. “Willie, note the time.” He strode to the captain’s side and saluted. “Captain, I’m sorry, sir, you’re a sick man. I am temporarily relieving you of this ship, under Article 184 of Navy Regulations.”

    Herman Wouk, I believe, wrote one of the great nail-biting scenes in fiction right there. It seems an apt metaphor for our current situation. Except that I’m not sure there’s a Maryk on board to save the ship.

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  2. Frank

    September 23, 2008 at 8:47 am

    “Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.”

    Ya… that free market economy thinking (deregulation to spur competition) did wonders for energy savings in MT. Right?

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  3. JC

    September 23, 2008 at 11:00 am

    I still think this concept of “choice of innovative products” when applied to health care is such a huge farce. I’l take my healthcare just plain vanilla, straight from the provider, thank you very much.

    Since when has the innovation of the insurance industry been more important than the delivery of health care? And what has innovation ever done to help get someone healthy?

    You want something innovative? Take the ability for an insurance company to make profit on people’s life or death health decisions illegal. Make access to health care a basic right for American citizens. Now that would be innovative.

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  4. problembear

    September 23, 2008 at 11:35 am

    now where’s the profit in that? no brokers? no insurance salesmen? no commission? we’ll have to bail out them too!
    and then just look at the loss in memberships to country clubs, cigar shops, fine wine merchants. this is just too much to sacrifice just so america’s citizens can have affordable access to health care.

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