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John McCain Opposes Public Health Care for 50 Million Uninsured
by TheCameraObscura | August 23, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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For weeks Republicans have lied about President Obama's health care bill, claiming it will kill old people, create death panels and slay babies. Sen. John McCain says the Republicans (who have supported angry mobs out town halls), aren't out to kill the bill, but want to work with President Obama if he will just stop supporting the public health care option for 50 million uninsured Americans.
Multi-millionaire Sen. John McCain believes that President Barack Obama must drop his support for a public insurance option for 50 million uninsured Americans before Republicans will consider supporting reform.
“I believe that one of the fundamentals for any agreement would be that the president abandon the government option,” McCain told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
Asked by Stephanopoulos if he believed — as President Obama argued this week — that the Republicans are trying to stall any and all health reform in order to score a political victory, McCain responded: “I hope not.”
“I think that Republicans are more than agreeable to sit down and talk about various reforms,” he added.Asked about the president’s remark that McCain’s former running mate Sarah Palin’s “death panels” comment is an “extraordinary lie,” McCain argued that “the way that [that clause] was written made it a little ambiguous.”
“I don’t think that’s correct, senator,” Stephanopoulos shot back, saying that the bill provided for voluntary end-of-life counseling, for which doctors would be reimbursed; there would be no panels.
“There was a provision in the bill that talks about a board that would decide what are the most effective measures to provide health care for people, okay?” McCain responded testily. “So what does that lead to? Doesn’t that lead to a possibility of rationing?”
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at 08:28 on September 2nd, 2009
John McCain: Why in God's name would you even open your mouth about the public health care option and that you are against the public option. SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!! I had insurance for 61 years, and quit at $350.00 a month for HMO Insurance. This was with AETNA. The CEO of AETNA makes $14,000,000 a year, plus who knows what else. If he got $1,000,000 a year, IT WOULD BE WAY TOO MUCH. Are you lining your pockets with money from insurance companies???? Either do something for the people of Arizona and the American People, or leave office and get out of town. I am 67 years old, and had a bad heart attack in March of this year (2009), and I did not have Coverage B. I still don't have Coverage B now and won't be able to get it until January of 2010, when they have Open Enrollment. I then really can't afford THE MONTHLY PAYMENT! I am still working, but since my heart attack, it is only part time work, but the same company. I come from the Des Moines area, where the average IQ is much higher than here in Phoenix, and the people are better people than here, but you have to do what you have to do and live in a climate that will not cause you to die. I come from a middle class background--but in the last eight years (BUSH YEARS), the worst years of my life, and the majority of people's lives, I am in the lower middle class. You and people like you, the crooks on Wall Street, etc, have made the middle class poor. I would love to see you and all like you out of office forever! I pay cash now every time I have to go to the doctor and have paid all of my medical bills, except for my doctor's bill, which I now pay on every month. AND, the CEO at AENTA IS LIVING HIGH, AS ARE OTHER CEO'S IN INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THEIR "BIG SHOT" WORKERS. AGAIN, SHAME ON YOU, JOHN MCCAIN, AND EVERYONE OF THE REPLUBLICAS AND DEMOCRATS THAT DON'T WANT THE PUBLIC OPTION. IF YOU DON'T PAY FOR THIS TYPE OF THING HERE ON EARTH, YOU WILL PAY IN ANOTHER PLACE. THAT IS SOMETHING THE BIG SHOTS, THE CEO'S AND YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. BUT THE FACT STILL REMAINS, THAT IF YOU DON'T CHANGE, YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS TYPE OF THING EITHER IN THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT LEFT. OBAMA IS WRONG TO DROP THE PUBLIC OPTION FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO WANT THE PUBLIC OPTION. PRETTY SOON, THE DING DONGS THAT DON'T WANT IT, WON'T HAVE ANY INSURANCE EITHER! AND, THE HONEST PEOPLE, ARE OFTEN THE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT RICH--AND THE RICH ARE OFTEN NOT HONEST PEOPLE!!!!!! PEOPLE DON'T HAVE INSURANCE, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT AFFORD THE PAYMENT. TRY TO GET THAT INTO YOUR REPUBLICAN HEAD! PEOPLE ARE DYING BECAUSE OF YOU, OTHERS LIKE YOUR AND THE MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANIES! By the way, I don't think you should cash your Social Security Checks anymore. You should not get Social Security. You should be ashamed to cash these checks and then say you are against the public option! You already have enough to live on with your present position.
at 08:38 on September 2nd, 2009
For what it is worth: Obama's [former] Doctor Opposes Health Care Plan.
at 10:47 on September 3rd, 2009
True, the doctor wants a single payer plan, which Obama has stated he wants as well:
Scheiner would rather see the nation adopt a single-payer system like the ones in Canada and Europe. The financing system relies on one "payer" -- which could be a government-run agency -- to fund all health care costs billed by doctors, hospitals and other health professionals.
Unfortunately, Democrats who are sold out to Health Insurance industries such as Ben Nelson, Kent Conrad, Mike Ross etc.. will never agree to that.