McCain says healthcare should be run like the banking industry... REALLY!

[gatorboy]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/mccain-on-banking-and-health/

Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!

http://www.contingencies.org/septoct08/mccain.pdf


C'mon, Obama! Jump on this!

[anonymous171]

1. Seriously?

:wow:

[gatorboy]

3. Totally!

D'oh! I posted without finishing the thread. Check the update. :)

[cynatnite]

2. Will someone please refill his Alzheimer's medication? n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. He's a very stupid man full of very stupid ideas.

[calmblueocean]

5. I really do hope Obama or some 527 jumps on this.

This and informing the country how Palin charged women for their rape kits when she was mayor.

[depakid]

19. It really is astonishing that the Obama campaign doesn't use this material

that's handed to them time and time again on a silver platter.

[krkaufman]

6. I'm only sad that this came out on Friday evening. n/t

[subterranean]

7. He is off his rocker.

[agentS]

8. Once a snake, always a snake

McCain might drift to the left at times, but he always returns to his roots as a snaky deregulator.

[Historic NY]

9. He must mean Keating or Silverado...banking product equal how

much more they can fleece from the customer in fee's, penalities & surcharges they tack on.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

10. That is BEAUTIFUL

[ContinentalOp]

11. WTF? Apart from the obvious idiocy of the banking stuff..

How would you even deregulate the health care industry? Is it even regulated now? How is there not enough competition?

[TheKentuckian]

12. McMeltdown is waaaaaaay out of touch.

He just goes from debacle to fiasco to trainwreck to boondoggle.

How this is allowed to continue, I cannot imagine.

[catlady]

13. Is he purposely trying to lose this election?

As much as I have disliked McCains polcies and even the man himself, I really have been quite stunned the past couple of weeks at how he is crashing and burning. He is much worse than I had originally thought him to be. Blunder after major blunder, and the Palin thing is an outright fiasco! I knew his policies were bad, but he is seriously acting like he is out of his mind.

Either that or he is on the Daily Show payroll.

[regnaD kciN]

14. I see the Huffington Post has picked up on this, too...

...and is making it the headline story. :-)

[and-justice-for-all]

15. McInsanes Lobbiest staff are doing a heck of'a job...

im no economist, but even I know that is fucking stupid.

Get those fucking assholes out of here! for fucks sake.

[joshcryer]

16. Yay! We can like Krugman again!

Thank goodness!

[bridgit]

17. Sure, and why not fritter the rest of it away into the ether?

[elshiva]

18. OMFG! What a fucking idiot you are McCain.

Does he even care about actual people? Sounds like a lot of bullshit to me.