McCain: "Scrap" Health Care Bill And Start Over

I am so surprised at people who seem to think the current insurance company process does not dictate their healthcare, who they see and what is covered - they control it absolutely. Try getting cancer and then discovering all the processes you have to wade thru, the people you have to call, the permissions and authorizations nightmare and the ever changing rules.

For people who complain about covering poor people's insurance - you're already covering in the most inefficient way possible. They get no care until they are ill enough to go to thru the emergency room ordeal

I laugh when our politicians scare us by saying doing nothing is too costly. Well you know, that doing the wrong thing is more expensive than doing nothing. Look at SS and Medicare. These programs are out of control. SS started as .5% contribution, know it is a 13% contribution and rising. However, we are so entrenched with SS there is no viable atlernative. So I say mr. president, think before you act because my children can not afford your stupidity.

Republicans represent for rich people. However, not all Republicans are rich. I hope that Republicans who just loose their jobs be able to afford health insurances for their families, or they will never get sick after loosing jobs. If they do not have insurances and they get sick. They may die soon so they may not have children to worry about. McCain has too much money and power, he already got the best health cares. Why does he need health care reform? He just needs to make sure he will get the best health cares for himself, and who cares about others who can not afford the costs!

Gov't broke health care to begin with (just like it does every other industry it meddles into the ground i.e. education, financial, energy, auto, farming, health care, etc.)

This government is the very last entity I trust to "fix it." And that is especially true for the Craven Corporatist Criminal Clowns in the 111th CONgress. All they do is lie, and line their pockets with funds from politically-connected special interests in exchange for their vile fascist rent-seeking.

Just put everyone who wants/needs coverage on Medicare already and be done with it. Prove you can make that system work. Ration their care and leave me, and the private system, out of it.

Make Medicare optional for patients, doctors and hospitals, and remove the gov't regulations imposed on private insurance and physicians.

It's what Harry Truman wanted. He insisted that in order for any nationalized program to work, it HAD to be optional for everyone involved, and that a private system out of the purview of the fedgov. was essential.

This is not your grandparents' Democratic Party, people. McCain was the JFK of the '08 election season, and Obama was the Mussolini.

What astonishes me is McCain's prevalence on the media. Helloooo - ABC? He LOST. He lost HUGE. And I sure as hell don't remember you guys giving Al Gore or John Kerry a lot of face time at this point in 2001 or 2005. I know y'all are on his tireswing, but damn. Move on already!

Obama's health care plan is not going anywhere, fast. The lobby groups are going to destroy it and well they should. Not for the reasons THEY say, but because it does NOT represent the only fair, affordable, moral and potentially successful reform there is, single payer.

In order to counter these strong lobbyist groups, Obama would need grassroots support. Since he has already screwed his "grassroots" on issues from war to privacy to bailouts, he is alone with the lobbyists. (cricket sounds).

I wouldn't defend him on anything, even if you paid me. Let him think it was the lobbyists that killed it. What an ass.

"How we going to pay for that, Mr. President.,"

Senator, Americans currently spend almost twice as much for health care as in every other first world nation. How can we keep paying for all those middle men, all those dr's doing paperwork, and all those ER visits that should have been taken care of with $10 in antibiotics not a week on a ventilator in the icu? How are we going to continue affording that, Mr. McCain?

We are not surprised to hear the Party of No saying No.

“[Obama and his Democrats] promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office.”
–-Ludwig Von Mises

Welcome to Post Office Health Care
by Sheldon Richmond

"Under the emerging plan, the government would also create insurance exchanges. The New York Times reports, “The new entities would also act as financial intermediaries, receiving subsidy payments from the government and sending the money to insurance companies. The insurance exchanges would also redistribute money among health insurance plans, from those with a large share of healthy subscribers to those with large numbers of sick people.”

If that isn’t a recipe for favoritism, corruption, and special-interest jockeying, there’s no such thing.

Obama promises that the new system, which he estimates will cost $1.5 trillion over a decade, won’t increase the already-large deficit because he is going to save money by mandating database technology and $200 billion to $300 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts. Fat chance. The potential savings from electronic records are grossly exaggerated, studies have shown, and the promises to cut billions from medical programs for the elderly and low-income people are hard to take seriously. Wait until the lobbies get a hold of those proposals.

What is happening to our country? Anyone with common sense knows what will happen....knows that people will NOT have a choice for healthcare...think about this....do you know of one Government agency acting efficiently and in the best interest of "We the People"??? Reagan conservatives need to make sure the current "inmates" running the Insane Asylm in Washington are booted out in 2010!

How much more does the government need to take over before we change our name of the type of government we have.

Sure is moving more towards socialism and communism.

How much has this administration taken over in their first 5 months?

And now Obama-care government run healthcare. That isn't going to fix anything.

If you really want to fix healthcare costs, do that, fix the costs. It shouldn't cost $15/ advil or $20 a bandaid. Getting a tetanus shot shouldn't be over a hundred dollars. Actually LOWER the costs so we don't need insurance. It can actually be affordable to go to a hospital.

Government healtcare will be like anything else that has the government picking up the tab. What's the best paying construction jobs? That's right, government ones. When the government is footing the bill, people see major dollar signs.

"Gov't broke health care to begin with" -I would agree. The goverment has over the past twenty-eight years killed the auto industry, the housing industry, the health industry and the banking industry through deregulation and "free" trade. From the corporate boardrooms to Wall Street it was one big party fueled by greed and the suffering of average Americans. Neocons have had their way for too long and now its up to Obama, with the backing of the American people, to clean up the mess.

McCain called for giving all Americans a $5,000 tax credit to purchase insurance on the open market.

A tax credit, meaning that next year you can deduct the 5 grand on your income tax. Which does NOTHING to help the people TODAY who cannot afford health care....

McCain why don't you cancel your senatorship until the problem is fixed? And we all have the same lifetime plan you have that we pay for.

Wrong, Mark.

It's the dumb regulations, stupid! /Carville

You cannot blame our problems on something we do not have -- we haven't had free markets in this country in over a century, in any industry. Government is the cause of all the problems we have today.

"So you can take a market and beat it, tax it, regulate it, subsidize it, flood it with fake money, punish its performers and reward its losers, hobble its capital sector, strangle consumers, nationalize stuff at will, and erect every barrier to trade and cooperation, and STILL call it a market. When the scheme fails, it's the free market that failed, so clearly we need the totalitarian state to sweep into action."
--by Jeffrey Tucker

Disclosure: I'm no fan of the neoconservatives, who are simply JFK Democrats. I'm a libertarian.

Will ABC have the courage of having Sen McCain speak during the infomercial from the White House?

republicans need to go back to the cave from which they came - old ideas, bad ideas - they sound like cranky old ladies. also the comments about the cost on children, etc. give me a break. they always bring out the child thing when they are against something. weren't the repulicans against federal insurance for poor children. seems to me that bush wouldn't sign it. time for a third party!

You proponents of socialized health care -- Why don't you speak to those living in the U.K. and ask them how they like it. Doctors and patients both hate their system and we're trying to go that same direction while they travel here for their health care needs. I've heard NObama speak how cheap this will be and pandering this sham idea -- everyone will suffer under a government run system; Doctors, patients, health care providers, and businesses mandated to support it It's a bad idea America.

Jack:"However, we are so entrenched with SS there is no viable atlernative. "

What on Earth does that mean? Of course there are alternatives! We do not adopt them because they are not as good as what we have now. Could you imagine if Social Security had been privatized and all flowed into the Wall Street free for all as Republicans wanted just a few years ago?

Social security is fine as soon as Congress has the courage to up the retirement age again to account for longer lifespans. It's not rocket science.

Name ONE government program that is well-managed.

Along with his "War-on-Wealth" - which favors a socialized re-distribution of wealth from hard-working American citizens to slugs and slackers - hussein is now embarking on a "War-Against-Healthcare".

Once again, his goal is socialization - government-controlled and restricted healthcare which will limit services to the elderly (they're closest to death, so why waste limited health services on them?) and allow slugs and slackers priority in the line for health services.

"it's good enough for government work." -- remember that phrase when you're getting your rationed allotment of healthcare from a loony-left government bureaucrat under their socialized heathcare plan.

Who will pay for this? Certainly NOT the loony-left socialist TAX CHEAT d-crats, who will find ways to "geithner" their taxes and pay nothing.

Only honest, responsible, hard-working American citizen taxpayers will be stuck paying for this latest social-welfare boondoggle - at a cost of OVER ONE TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR TO START!

GO GO GOVERNMENT!!!!
Im all for a government health insurance entity. If the private sector were playing fair and not sending people off to die because they dont have enough money, then the Government would mind its business.
But, just like everything the Republicans vouch for, greed has taken it over, health care is not a business its a right and the republican view that basically everything is a business tanked with the economy. They argue against public health care because it takes money from them. BIG DEAL
DO IT, even if you have to raise taxes remember HEALTH CARE SAVES LIVES. INSURANCE COMPANIES SAVE MONEY