The McCain/Palin Health Care Bridge to Nowehere
By: Doctor A
Published On: 10/3/2008 2:33:50 PM
McCain wants to fix the healthcare problem by giving folks $5000 and telling them to go buy insurance. But just where is this so-called $5000 credit coming from? It's going to come from taxes on health care benefits. Huh?! It doesn't make sense to me either. In what was the only line that drew laughter from the audience during last night's VP debate, Biden called out McCain's plan to tax health care benefits the "ultimate bridge to nowhere". You can watch the new Obama/Biden ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
The McCain plan will force individuals to buy health care insurance on their own, rather than get it through their employers. The problem with this is that more people will have higher deductibles, which will discourage people from seeing their doctors for preventive health care. Thus, more costly emergency room visits will replace primary care and our health care costs will skyrocket even further.
McCain wants to do the same thing to health care that has been done to banking: de-regulate it. Look what de-regulation has done to the banking industry. We can't afford the same thing to happen to health care.
Comments
Worth a Sarah Palin wink (soccermom3 - 10/3/2008 3:23:27 PM)
Thank you for clearing up this situation. It was so disingenuous of Sarah Palin to say that McCain would offer a budget neutral tax credit of $5,000 to individuals without noting that it was paid for by raising taxes on all of us who rely on employer-based coverage. This is one place in the debate when a wink would have made sense. Otherwise, not so much.