McCain campaign tries to "straight talk" their health care policy

The McCain/Palin campaign's Senior Policy Adviser, Doug Holtz-Eakin, eagerly dismissed "misconceptions made by the Obama campaign about McCain's health care policy" in a teleconference today. The McCain campaign denied that McCain would tax health care benefits for the first time. Holtz-Eakin said "McCain's tax code will equally subsidize private health insurance." The Obama campaign supposedly accused McCains health care policy because Americans with pre-existing
medical conditions would not receive coverage. Holtz-Eakin said "McCain'ss guaranteed access plan for every state would implement fines on companies that deny care inappropriately."

The McCain campaign said the Obama campaign created a false perception of a $882 billion cut to
medicare, phrasing it as a 'cut to necessary care, but Holtz-Eakin said that "there will be no cuts to health care, especially Medicare." He also noted that the same health care benefits will grow more slowly.

Holtz-Eakin ended the conference by saying that Obama's plan is an expansion of big government and is on the path towards "risky sub-prime health care".

Comments

[Lindy]

Think about this and employer provided health care. Obama's program provides to supplement the employer provided health care that didnt cover expenses and provide health care, on government employee standards, to be given to all who dont have it....

Now, with that in mind...please tell me the incentives employers would have to provide health care if the government provides it? Will most of America, who has employer provided health care, lose it under Obama's plan?

Its a dangerous plan and threatens middle America with loss of their health benefits.

I don't believe he thinks like middle class America because he has never worked in private enterprise....and he doesn't realize how important those "benefits" are.

[Paul Maurice Martin]

Here's some straight talk:

Care about health care? Never vote Republican.

I say this as someone in my fifteenth year of a progressive illness who was forced to become knowledgeable about health care. Fifteen years ago I would have considered myself independent minded enough to consider Republican candidates but I've heard way too many false deceptive remarks in their efforts to give health insurers exactly what they want.

Since the health care lobby has most of DC bought and paid for the Democrats aren't a lot better. But with a Republican president, things will absolutely get worse.