McCain's Plan for Health Insurance: Out of Touch?

Dare we talk politics?

Oh, what the heck.

I was astonished this morning to hear Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s proposals for dealing with this country’s health care morass.
He says the problem with health care in this country is that it costs too much (well, yeah) and he wants to bring those costs under control. [For the details, visit http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/19ba2f1c-c03f-4ac2-8cd5-5cf2edb527cf.htm.]

He believes employers shouldn’t have to pay for employees’ health insurance and that everyone should buy their own. McCain offers a few things that are supposed to help us do that like tax credits and purchasing insurance across state lines (which presumably would bring competition and lower prices).

The candidate says that we should provide universal access to health insurance, but does he realize that many people can’t afford insurance at any price?

McCain also suggests that people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, who can afford to pay for their prescriptions, should not receive subsidies like drug plans to do so. But just how many billionaires does he thinks live in this country? I think it’s safe to say that there are very few people who can afford to bear the total cost of all their medications.

Nothing in McCain’s plan says anything about mandating insurance companies to cover everyone. If the senator were forced to give up his health care plan and buy medical insurance on his own, as he suggests everyone should, he’d be unable to find coverage. Health care insurance companies run like crazy from cancer survivors.

It’s just my opinion but I don’t think there are many who will support this so-called “health system reform” except maybe the CEOs of the health insurance companies who make millions by canceling people’s coverage.

What do you think?