Meanwhile…..what’s John McCain doing?
Anybody know?
You have to search for coverage. Here’s an interesting piece. It actually analyzes an issue.
Fellow Americans, choose your revolution. One way or another, we’re getting a new health-care system. The old one is obviously broken. The U.S. now has 47 million uninsured, and costs are out of control…
The crisis has gotten so severe that fixing the system is no longer a partisan issue. Everyone understands that something has to change, and fast. In this presidential race, both sides are proposing radical fixes that would totally transform the way health care is delivered and paid for in America. Both the Democrats and the Republicans embrace the same goals: John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton are all putting forth ways of making health care affordable for every American and stopping a disastrous escalation in costs. Both sides also envision a world where employers play a much smaller role in medical benefits. The differences, of course, are in the way each candidate intends to reach those laudable goals.
The two Democratic candidates are virtually indistinguishable from each other on their plan. McCain has a market-based plan that puts “decision-making power” in consumers’ hands.
For all its problems, at least it puts the consumer in charge. Would that create a world where we’re forced to dicker with heart surgeons? No. It will create a world where health care is treated as the precious resource that it is, rather than a costless entitlement; where nationwide competition pushes down the price of catastrophic care and consumers focus their attention and budgets on what’s really crucial to their health. That’s an important first step. The price of health care is never going to get under control until patients get what they deserve: the right to be customers too.
Okay, it’s not the best. Everyone deserves health care. No one is talking about the best way to do that without the dire consequences of universal health care happening in other countries. I’m getting mail from people worried about that.
They’re also worried that universal health care will mandate abortion services in all hospitals, no exceptions.
That brings up another thing John McCain is doing this week.
