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".