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Think Progress: Former McCain adviser nervous about moving into the individual health insurance market he once touted.
Ben Smith's Blog: Holtz-Eakin, poster child
Wonk Room: McCain Adviser Holtz-Eakin Anxious About Moving Into Individual Market He Once Touted
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WaPo: McCain's health policy advisor soon to be denied coverage on the individual market. http://bit.ly/Zrq6p (H/t Fark) 16 days ago |
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RT @PublicOption4Us McCain camp. health adviser has pre-exist condition, & can't find #healthcare http://bit.ly/3fxZK1 #hcr #hc09 #p2 16 days ago |
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McCain camp. health adviser has Pre-E condition, & Can't find #healthcare http://bit.ly/3fxZK1 #hcr #p2 #dems #tcot #obama 16 days ago |
Former McCain adviser nervous about moving into the individual health insurance market he once touted.
Think Progress —
... Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a senior policy adviser to Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign, “remains unemployed — and his COBRA health coverage is running out,” the Washington Post reports. “Irony of ironies, it gets worse. Holtz-Eakin, who is about to start shopping for insurance on the individual market, is 51. And he ...
Holtz-Eakin, poster child
Ben Smith's Blog —
... Holtz-Eakin is the subject of a profile in today's Washington Post profile detailing his own worries about finding a health care plan despite a preexisting condition: ...
McCain Adviser Holtz-Eakin Anxious About Moving Into Individual Market He Once Touted
Wonk Room —
... Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a senior policy adviser to Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign, “remains unemployed — and his COBRA health coverage is running out,” the Washington Post reports. “Irony of ironies, it gets worse. Holtz-Eakin, who is about to start shopping for insurance on the individual market, is 51. And he ...
Doug Holtz-Eakin’s Pre-Existing Condition
Oliver Willis —
Holtz-Eakin will be remembered for all time for the laughable statement that John McCain helped to create the miracle of the Blackberry, but this is pretty ironic
If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president’s domestic agenda, including health-care reform. But now, one year after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) lost the presidential election, the man who was by McCain’s side as the campaign’s top health-care guru remains unemployed — and his COBRA ...
McCain strategist losing COBRA - can't get private insurance
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed —
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Classic - had McCain won, this guy would be fighting against health reform - anything passed would of course have been vetoed by McCain.
But McCain lost, and the ex-strategist is still unemployed and because of a pre-existing condition, can't get private health insurance and his COBRA's running out.
That is what I call poetic justice, but it also underscores the fact that health insurance companies f*** over people of all political persuasions. As time goes on, more and more wingnuts are going to be backed into a corner by these ...
Top McCain campaign adviser running out of insurance, has pre-existing condition
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Amazing story. And not that different from a lot of people. America is changing. More and more people are working on their own, freelancing, consulting. None of us have access to reasonable health care - at least not reasonable once you're "of a certain age." From the Washington Post: ...
Republican adviser faces health care's costly bite-Former McCain strategist about to lose health ins
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... market, is 51. And he has one of those pesky "preexisting conditions" that insurance companies often cite in denying coverage. "A right renal autotransplant," he said, pointing to his abdomen as he described the 1990 transplant surgery he went through after one of his kidneys was damaged in an accident. "They got rid of the artery, moved my kidney and rebuilt me for the 21st century. If you look at my file, any insurance company would go, 'Hmm . . .' " Good luck. Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
Midday Open Thread
Daily Kos —
... and small." It took some time, but eBay has pulled the items: Supporters of the man charged with the May killing of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller are raising money for his legal defense through an eBay auction on items including prison art glorifying the murder and a commissary cookbook by the woman who is serving time for shooting Tiller in both arms in the early 1990s. How sad -- he obviously feels John and Jane Q. Public's pain: If history had taken ...
GOP reform alternative in the works after all?
Political Animal —
... on health care matters for the Arizona Republican during the 2008 presidential election, applauded individual Republicans for putting forth "good policies" that would promote individual markets for coverage. He even noted that there is a political benefit to simply opposing Democratic legislation. But, he added, "I do think that it is beneficial for Republicans as a whole to have a consensus alternative... Collectively we lose if we don't provide an alternative." (The issue is more than an academic exercise for Holtz-Eakin -- the McCain campaign's top health-care guru is ...
Holtz-Eakin Says Democratic Health Care Bill Filled With 'Gimmicks'
TPM Election Central —
... Reporters on the call asked Holtz-Eakin about this Washington Post story suggesting he is on the market for private insurance since his COBRA has run out. And he has a preexisting condition to boot. ...
Link Farm
Megan McArdle —
Wal-Mart gets into the casket business Doug Holtz-Eakin about to lose health insurance, still opposes the Democrats' reform plans. Louisa May Alcott's private sorrows.
The Myth Endures
Balloon Juice —
Via the Washington Monthly, this WaPo piece on former McCain advisor Doug Holtz-Eakin, who is about to lose his health care, which contained this gem:
Despite his personal trials, however, Holtz-Eakin said his conviction on the hot-button issue of health care is unchanged. He believes that reform is needed, but that President Obama and congressional Democrats are going about it the wrong way. The system is “broken,” he said, but the bills now before Congress do not cut costs enough. On the campaign trail, Holtz-Eakin promoted ...
I Weep At This Tale Of Woe
Delaware Liberal —
... Yeah, I didn’t either. On the campaign trail, Holtz-Eakin promoted McCain’s plan to eliminate the tax exemption for employer-sponsored health insurance and give tax credits to individuals to buy their own coverage. Republicans love them some tax credits! Anyway, McCain’s economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin is still unemployed and his expensive COBRA benefits are about to run out: Irony of ironies, it gets worse. Holtz-Eakin, who is about to start shopping for insurance on the individual market, is 51. And he has one of those pesky “preexisting conditions” that insurance ...
