The McCain Health Care Plan
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Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News reported new details of the McCain health care plan.
Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)
“So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime,” Mr. Goodman said. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured…”
“So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved.”
It is obviousl that the authors of this "plan" are sincerely stupid. This is not health care as people really need it.
If this is the best that McCain can propose, I think we should pull his healthcare benefits as a member of Congres and give them to someone who really needs the coverage.
I was thinking of reviving this idea with McCain health-care hangers. It's a very powerful symbol.