Obama v. McCain: A Tale of Two Health Care Plans The difference between Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s health care reform proposals couldn’t be starker. Obama’s health insurance plan is based on the reforms enacted under Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. McCain’s health care plan has some roots in existing plans in about 34 states, which [...]
During tonight’s Presidential Debate Senator John McCain made the claim that he “warned” about the impending economic crisis. That’s amazing, seeing as he said in 2007 that he was in fact surprised by it and failed to predict the disaster he, President Bush and the GOP brought upon America. Did anyone else hear McCain wheezing [...]
John McCain’s proposal is to tax employer provided health insurance benefits, and use that money to give a $5,000 credit to families who buy their own insurance. It’s supposedly revenue-neutral, meaning the government pays nothing out of pocket to run the program. This health insurance program has a definite lifespan, and is doomed in the [...]
From STLtoday: State Sen. Chris Koster, a Democrat who barely won his party’s nomination for attorney general, spent more on TV ads in the state during the final week than any other candidate on Tuesday’s primary ballot. In fact, Koster is the top spender on TV campaign ads during the last month — outpacing even [...]
Pundits are puzzled; why no lasting bounce for Obama post Berlin? He did boffo box office Over There. Evoking Kennedy and Reagan while recasting their image in 21st Century Bland. Back at the ranch John McCain straddled a hog — aka the war in Iraq — while hanging with bikers and firing off negative campaign [...]
The number of employers that would drop health insurance for employees under the health care proposal of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) remains a “great unknown,” the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. The proposal would replace an income tax break for employees who receive health insurance from employers with a refundable tax credit of [...]
From Elizabeth Edwards at The Wonk Room at Think Progress: Senator John McCain’s health plan is based on the idea that everyone should be on their own to buy their health insurance on the individual market. And it’s an approach fundamentally at odds with the point of health insurance: that we share risks. People with [...]
John McCain would like independents, moderates, Reagan Democrats, and Hillary Clinton supporters to think of him as a maverick who doesn’t march in lockstep with George Bush and his right wing ideology. The problem is that John McCain is traveling the country espousing the very principles that define the evangelical agenda George Bush touted throughout [...]
John McCain Thinks You Pay Too Much For Your Mortgage (And You’re a Terrorist) This is a 100% real banner ad running on the website of the spiritual home of unreconstructed Old Leftists The Nation. It is an obvious, slimy, and desperate attempt to link Barack Obama to nutty Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And it [...]
Presidential candidate John McCain is coming to Louisiana tomorrow. He’ll have a rally in Kenner (“America’s City!”), and a town hall meeting and fundraiser in Baton Rouge. Governor Jindal, “The New True Champion of the Right”, will host the fundraiser. (Update: lj4a has more.) Recently, the T-P’s Stephanie Grace wrote a column titled “Katrina a [...]
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