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Last Night's VP Debate: McCain & Palin Just Don't Get It On Healthcare
Submitted by nmaurice on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 1:15pm.
Last night Sarah Palin did an admirable job refusing to answer the questions she was asked and instead sticking to the repitition of scripted, high level responses. Interestingly for healthcare wonks like me, healthcare was one of the few areas where she actually engaged on a policy question with any sort of specificity - and the response served to reinforce the misguided nature of the McCain / Palin policy. The following clip is pretty enlightening...
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185304443/bctid1832907349
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McCain and Palin just don't get it on healthcare
What's more, Palin didn't even bother denying what Biden said about the cost of the McCain/Palin health plan to average workers.
Biden said, accurately, that the McCain plan gives families a tax credit of $5,000, but that employer family coverage costs, on average, about $12,000 - that's a $7,000 shortfall that families will have to pay. If you do the math, most families will be paying substantially more than they pay now for their employer coverage - and that doesn't even take into account that the coverage will be less generous.
I don't see this plan as providing any health to Main Street USA.
A simple test
This is a crucial point. It would be more telling if the candidates can promise to put there own families on the healthcare plan they are proposing for the average Americans. In any event, comprehensive healthcare reform cannot be delayed in any way, shape, or form, by any leader, anymore; otherwise he or she will not be suited for the office.
Please take action October 16!
The national healthcare campaign Healthcare for America Now will be kicking off in Philadelphia on October 16, 1 p.m., on the lawn in front of the National Constitution Center.
We will be asking our elected officials: which side are you on?
The side of the American people, or the side of the insurance industry?
Please make it a point to be there to show how important this issue is.
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/
Thanks!