McCain's Lies of Omission
Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Jason Rosenbaum in Profits Before People
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This morning in Wisconsin, John McCain expanded a bit on his health care plan. He said:
I'll give every family in America a $5000 refundable tax credit to buy their own health insurance policy and let them choose their own doctor. This will make insurance affordable to every American. We'll double the child exception from $3500 to $7000 to help families pay for the rising cost of living. Under my plan, a married couple with two children making $35,000 will get $5000 to pay for health insurance and additional medical expenses. This family would get another$1050 from my child exemption. That adds up to over $6000. That's a lot more than what any hard-working middle class family gets under the Obama plan.
Senator McCain seems to think giving families a $6,000 tax credit will do it. He's wrong. First off, tax credits are cold comfort to working people living paycheck to paycheck. If you can barely afford to put food on the table or fill up your gas tank to get to work, how are you going to afford to pay for health insurance out of your own pocket for an entire year until the tax credit from Uncle Sam arrives in the mail in the spring?
And of course, even if tax credits were a good idea in principle - which they're not - the numbers just don't add up. As Richard Kirsch, our national campaign director, explains:
When the average family health insurance plan runs $12,000/year, how does Senator McCain suggest that family of four earning $35,000/year find $6,000 or $7,000? In addition, McCain’s assertion that his plan would let you choose your own doctor is a complete fabrication. Not only would his plan continue to let the insurance industry call the shots and limit your choice of doctors, but McCain’s inadequate tax credit would push people into bare bones plans with even more restrictions on whom they can or can’t see.
More telling is the things Senator McCain didn't say about his health care plan. Like the fact it would get rid of employee based health care, leaving working people who already have enough to worry about at the mercy of the insurance companies. Or the fact that McCain would tax any health benefits you receive.
Oh, and another thing. Here's Richard again:
See, Senator McCain enjoys the government health care he keeps attacking. He has coverage through the Veterans Administration, which is government run, socialized medicine. He’s covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefit System, which is government paid for, regulated private insurance. And as a senior citizen, Senator McCain is eligible for Medicare which is government health insurance. All these allow McCain to “see [his] doctor fairly frequently” as he told reporters in March.
And yet he believes none of these solutions are right for the rest of America, many of whom can’t afford to see their doctor at all.
Here's the video of that comment, Senator McCain claming that "like most Americans [he] sees [his] doctor fairly frequently:"
As Richard said, public health care programs seem to be good enough for Senator McCain, but not good enough for you.
I sure hope the American people by and large are seeing these reports. I'[ve been wondering about the fuzzy tax credit math ever since it was first brought up, but the lack of media coverage had me wondering if I misunderstood the plan… It seems as though I had not misunderstood, and the whole situation is simply going under reported.
The rest of the world wonders why America is so slow to get on board with a new direction, and this is a perfect example. We're not getting all the facts!!
McCane and palin will resort to anything to convince people they can govern. Their blatant lies and in the latters case a lack of credibility and sincerity typify the dismal Republican achievemnets of the last 8 years. McCane is a Bush clone who is almost senile and out of touch with the working and middle class of this country. He will destroy our economy, the environment and ensure many innocent young men and women continue to die in useless and unnecessary wars. I deplore Palin s God like approach to everything and be sure of the fact that she would govern through ignorance and neo-conservative values akin to those of people such as Hitler and Mussolini.
This country needs Obama and people need to wake up to the trash that McCain supports. he is the problem and will destroy the futures of our kids. Change with the democrats is the only viable future, so we all need to stand up and let McCain and Palin and all those conservative elitists know. Now is the time. Anything less that mass support for a real future with Obama is a crime and will destine this country to crisis after crisis. Bush and Cheney are responsible for the economic crisis we face as well a soil prices above what we expect. their over zealous, consume at all cost approach has failed. Yet McCain supports it and sees nothing wrong. He has no idea and thinks an unknown female from Alaska has the answers. Its like Mickey Mouse asking sylvester to run the country.