John McCain’s Health Care Plan Hurts America
Health care and health insurance issues have been at the forefront of the race for the White House in 2008. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain have all proposed different plans to fix our health care system. In this series we will discuss the pros and cons of each health plan. Read Why John McCain’s Health Care Plan Will Work.
Does John McCain’s “straight talk express” really deliver a quality health care program to the American people?
Simple Economics
McCain’s health care plan is playing with fishy economics. His plan promotes competition, under the premise that competition will reduce health care costs. His plan hopes that these costs would be reduced enough to make health insurance affordable to Americans with a history of major diseases, like cancer. This would hardly be the case.
Competition may make some prices more affordable, but it does absolutely nothing when it comes to helping Americans with bad medical histories get health insurance. McCain’s plan does nothing to give health care to the people that actually need it. There is no negative for companies who deny claims. The current, privatized system has a lot of competition and health care reform is still one of the main issues. Competition does not equal success.
The plan also allows for people to seek health care outside of state lines. This would also allow insures to move their operations to states in which consumer protection laws are weak.
Not Universal
McCain’s plan is about as far away as you can get from universal. McCain’s plan does nothing to reduce the ranks of the uninsured, and will not help the 47 million Americans currently living without health insurance. The McCain plan would dislodge state regulations. Regulations that would be dislodged include:
- ER Care
- Diabetes Care
- Mental Health Parity
- Off-Label Prescription Drug Use
- Chiropractors
Final Word
John McCain’s health care plan does not seem to be in the best interest of the American people. It seems to rehash an old plan by George W. Bush that already has failed. It has long been conservative politics to deny universal health care because, those who are suffering from lack of health care, aren’t really a key demographic to conservatives.
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