McCain Offers Market-Based Health Plan |
In my opinion, McCain’s stance on market based, portable, individual health insurance coverage shows the continuing influence of Gov. Romney on his campaign.
McCain has taken several pages from the Romney playbook. McCain is fortunate to have Romney’s past success in crafting market-based health insurance for Massachusetts available to help him formulate policies that will benefit all Americans.
~~John Cronin~~
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/
AR2008042902706.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 30, 2008; Page A01
TAMPA, April 29 – Sen. John McCain on Tuesday rejected calls by his Democratic opponents for universal health coverage, instead offering a market-based solution with an approach similar to a proposal put forth by President Bush last year.
This StoryMcCain’s belief in the power of the free market to meet the nation’s health-care needs sets up a stark choice for voters this fall in terms of the care they could receive, the role the government would play and the importance they place on the issue
In a speech at a cancer research center here, McCain dismissed his rivals’ proposals for universal health care as riddled with “inefficiency, irrationality and uncontrolled costs.” He said the 47 million uninsured Americans will get coverage only when they are freed from the shackles of the current employer-dominated system.
