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McCain Aide Trashes Own Health Care Plan
Politics Daily —
... McCain campaign senior adviser Doug Holtz Eakin must be having a hard time keeping that health care plan down, because he threw a little bit of it up in his own mouth earlier today, confessing that McCain's measly $5000.00 tax credit won't get you much more than a box of Kleenex on the individual insurance market. I'm paraphrasing, of course. From CNN: ...
McCain Campaign Says Your Health Care Plan Is Better Than Theirs
Swampland —
... Wow:
CNN Money: Election: Your health insurance at stake -- Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn't abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior economic policy adviser. "Why would they leave?" said Holtz-Eakin. "What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit."
In addition to harshing on their own ...
Plans and credits
Ben Smith's Blog —
... today by McCain's top economic advisor that a $5,000 health-care tax credit alone won't pay for coverage as extensive as most Americans get from their employers.
Doug Holtz-Eakin has made the case before that employees are unlikely -- as the Obama campaign charges -- to drop out of employer-sponsored plans, because the employer's contribution should make up even for the discount a young, healthy worker would get on his own.
He put it particularly directly to CNN Money:
Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn't abandon their company-sponsored plans, said ...
Jason Rosenbaum: McCain Campaign: Our Health Plan Doesn't Work
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Another admission from the McCain campaign that their health care plan is nothing more than a bunch of right-wing platitudes thrown together without any real serious thought as to how to solve the health care crisis. From CNN: ...
Ooops!
Matthew Yglesias —
Doug Holtz-Eakin explains why McCain’s plan won’t cause young and healthy workers to drop out of group plans:
Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn’t abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain’s senior economic policy adviser.
“Why would they leave?” said Holtz-Eakin. “What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit.”
In other words, John McCain is promising to make your health care worse! Ooops! ...
McCain's healthcare contradiction
Political Animal —
MCCAIN'S HEALTHCARE CONTRADICTION.... How bad is the McCain healthcare plan? So bad that the McCain campaign is now undermining its own proposal. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior economic policy adviser, told CNN that younger, healthier workers probably won't give up their employer-sponsored healthcare plans because they would have no incentive to change. "Why would they leave?" said Holtz-Eakin. "What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit." That's true. Taking a credit given by a McCain administration onto the open ...
Hullabaloo — ... Douglas Holtz-Eakin earned a reputation in the Congressional Budget Office as a fairly honest conservative economist. Today he told the truth about John McCain's health care plan. ...
Holtz-Eakin Implosion Watch: Admits Inferiority Of Individual Health Care Plans…Again
Wonk Room —
... Today, Holtz-Eakin again strays off message, telling CNN, “younger, healthier workers likely wouldn’t abandon their company-sponsored plans“: ...
McCain campaign admits its health care plan basically sucks
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
A startling admission from McCain's top economic adviser to CNNMoney.com: Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn't abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior economic policy adviser. "Why would they leave?" said Holtz-Eakin. "What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit."Here's the reaction: Time's Swampland: McCain Campaign Says Your Health Care Plan Is Better Than Theirs Health Care for American Now (HCAN): MCCAIN CAMPAIGN: OUR ...
McCain Adviser: Our Health Proposal Sucks
Firedoglake —
... McCain's economic team of Holtz-BlackBerry-Eakin was quoted in a CNN story today to the effect that employees were better off staying with their employer-based health plans than buying plans on their own in the market, which McCain is trying to encourage. ...
Is Douglas Holtz-Eakin still an economist?
Angry Bear —
Via Dr. Black, we get CNN reporting: Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn't abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior economic policy adviser. "Why would they leave?" said Holtz-Eakin. "What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit." And why is it better? Because of the tax credit that is going away. But let's be nice to a man who has, in the past few months, eliminated his credibility to ensure that no ex-GWBush Administration official ...
Obama Gets Back To Hardball
The Stump —
... that Obama was turning magnanimous a little prematurely. Well, ask and you shall receive: It looks like he's incorporated this poorly-timed admission (or, depending on how you look at it, poorly-worded explanation) from McCain policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin into his stump speech. Here's what he had to say about it in Virginia today, via ...
McCain Campaign "Unleashed An October Surprise Of Straight Talk" - Oops
Daily Kos —
... In a stunning reversal of their usual campaign tactics, today John McCain's senior economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin told the truth about John McCain's signature health care tax credit: ...
McCain's economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin's gaffe: Obama's health care plan better for America
Crooks and Liars —
(photo WT)
McCain's economic adviser makes Obama's case for him and against McCain's bogus 5000 dollar tax credit as his health care plan.
Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn't abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior economic policy adviser.
"Why would they leave?" said Holtz-Eakin. "What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit."
dday elaborates on it...
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McCain Camp: Decrease The Size Of The Pool, Increase The Price Of Insurance Policy
Wonk Room —
... created a firestorm after effectively conceding the inferiority of individual health care plans on Tuesday, and Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) is all too eager to follow his lead. ...
