{"id":4282,"date":"2008-09-22T19:10:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2008-09-23T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T15:46:26","slug":"mccain-dumber-than-bush-and-meaner-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4282","title":{"rendered":"McCain: Dumber than Bush and meaner, too."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>McCain Draws Fire for Health Reform Modeled on Banking Deregulation<\/strong><br \/>\nScott Hensley, Wall Street Journal Health Blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2008\/09\/22\/mccain-draws-fire-for-health-reform-modeled-on-banking-deregulation\/\">22 September 2008 <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paul Krugman, op-ed columnist and blogger, at the <em>New York Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/19\/mccain-on-banking-and-health\/\" target=\"blank\">riffs on an interesting piece on health-care reform<\/a> by John McCain in an obscure, to us, journal for actuaries.<\/p>\n<p>In the current issue of Contingencies, McCain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contingencies.org\/septoct08\/mccain.pdf\" target=\"blank\">makes his case for a freer market for health coverage<\/a> by arguing that insurance would benefit from the same sort of deregulation that has led to innovation in\u2026wait for it\u2026banking.<\/p>\n<p>The money quote from McCain, as noted by Krugman:<br \/>\n<em>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<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2008\/09\/22\/mccain-draws-fire-for-health-reform-modeled-on-banking-deregulation\/\">Read the post<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>McCain Secretly Plans New Tax on Middle Class<\/strong><br \/>\nUnited Steelworkers International President Leo W. Gerard<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thehill.com\/2008\/09\/16\/mccain-secretly-plans-new-tax-on-middle-class\/\">September 16th, 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John McCain should not be traveling in a bus called the Straight Talk Express. No, that equivocating multimillionaire who kowtows constantly to the wealthy should be riding in one of those private, gilded railroad cars.<\/p>\n<p>That would be symbolically appropriate as well since he is trying to railroad the middle class on taxes.<\/p>\n<p>He is actually proposing a brand new tax on the middle class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thehill.com\/2008\/09\/16\/mccain-secretly-plans-new-tax-on-middle-class\/\">Read the post<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/sideshow.me.uk\/ssep08.htm#09222048\">hat tip<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain Draws Fire for Health Reform Modeled on Banking Deregulation Scott Hensley, Wall Street Journal Health Blog, 22 September 2008 Paul Krugman, op-ed columnist and blogger, at the New York Times, riffs on an interesting piece on health-care reform by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4282\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-174","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}