blog.healthcareforamericanow.org - 10/28/2008
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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:
Changing the tax treatment wouldn't hurt the employer-sponsored ...
huffingtonpost.com - 10/28/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
The latest guilt-by-association target that the McCain campaign
is using to hit Barack Obama could carry some...
collateral damage for its own candidate. As Politico's Ben Smith reported on Tuesday, the McCain campaign is demanding that the Los ...
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McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To ...
money.cnn.com - 10/28/2008
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money.cnn.com —
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Both presidential candidates want
to turn employer-sponsored health insurance on its head. A...
principal goal: to make sure more Americans get coverage. But in helping the 45 million uninsured, both Republican nominee John ...
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Candidates to change work-based health plans - Oct. 28, 2008
abcnews.go.com - 10/28/2008
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The McCain campaign is definitely demoralized right now.
The blame game has begun. There is no question...
that there is a rift between Sarah Palin's camp and that of John McCain inside the Republican campaign, sources tell ABC News. Watch George ...
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Rift Cracks 'Demoralized' McCain Campaign
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Jason Rosenbaum: McCain Campaign: Our Health Plan Doesn't Work
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... a better deal at work, then John McCain is simply proposing a tax on your current health care benefits without giving you anything in return. That's the worst kind of tax increase.
Shorter Douglas Holtz-Eakin: John McCain's health care plan won't destroy the employer-based insurance system because McCain's plan doesn't work.
Remember John McCain: Less jobs, more war? Well now it's John McCain: More tax, less benefits.
(also posted at the NOW! blog)
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... Holtz-Eakin is basically saying that the individual health insurance market is crap and the employer market is more preferable because it provides more. That's elementary, since it pools resources to get a better deal. But of course the entire McCain health care plan seeks to get people AWAY from the employer system and into the individual market. Jason Rosenbaum explains: ...
McCain campaign admits its health care plan basically sucks
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... 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 HEALTH PLAN DOESN'T WORK The ...
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McCain Campaign Says Your Health Care Plan Is Better Than Theirs
swampland.blogs.time.com 10/28/2008 —
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 ?" ...
Jason Rosenbaum: McCain Campaign: Our Health Plan Doesn't Work
huffingtonpost.com 10/28/2008 — 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 : Changing the tax ...
The McCain Plan for Health Insecurity
crooksandliars.com 10/24/2008 — At the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. David Blumenthal reviews McCain's healthcare plans - and finds the same old Republican "I'm alright, Jack" philosphy. (h/t Avedon) John McCain emerges not as a maverick or centrist but as a radical ...
What Did The McCain Campaign Know And When Did They Know It?
dailykos.com 10/25/2008 — Just how involved in pushing the now discredited fake attack story was the McCain campaign? Remember, before the police had released any details on the alleged attack, it was being reported that: The McCain campaign later retracted their ...
McCain Campaign Admits Health Care Plan Sucks
eschatonblog.com 10/28/2008 — Funny: Changing the tax treatment wouldn't hurt the employer-sponsored system and would allow more of the uninsured to buy their own coverage, [the McCain campaign says]. Also, his advisers say a McCain administration would keep an eye on the ...
Obama Camp Questions If McCain’s Health Plan Is ‘Socialism’
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 10/30/2008 — Yesterday, during a roundtable discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations , Austan Goolsbee, Senior Economic Adviser to the Obama campaign asked McCain spokesperson Douglas Holtz-Eakin if McCain’s plan to give every American a refundable ...
McCain Offers Economic Plan
voices.washingtonpost.com 10/14/2008 — By Michael D. Shear BLUE BELL, Pa. -- Sen. John McCain today proposed $52 billion worth of tax breaks aimed at reducing the impact of stock market losses on the nation's seniors, providing relief to the unemployed and encouraging savings. Under his ...
Obama: McCain 'riding shotgun' with Bush —
First Read 10/28/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones CHESTER, Pa. -- A jean-clad Obama , speaking on a rainy, windy day outside Philadelphia, told the crowd McCain was “riding shotgun” with President Bush when it came to economic policies that have hurt working ...
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