So John McCain wants to destroy the health insurance of nonelderly Americans instead. But but Not good. Obama’s idea is different. Today, he signed on to the Health Care for America Now principles, which do not endorse specific legislation, but are compatible with single payer and other approaches. From a press release:

Today, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) signed the Health Care for America Now statement declaring that he is on the side of quality, affordable health care for all and opposed to leaving Americans on their own with unregulated health insurance.

There’s still plenty of room to argue about the best way to get there, but with a recession looming and people in danger of losing their jobs, this is not an issue that can be ignored any more. Expect it to be brought up in the town hall debate tomorrow – unlike the phoney stuff being brought up by McCain’s campaign and his increasingly shrill VP candidate, who caters only to the shrinking Republican base, this is an issue that all Americans actually care about.

“Health Care for America Now’s goal this year is to get the next President and a majority of Congress committed to the principles of quality, affordable health care for all and opposed to policies that would tax our benefits at work and leave us on our own with the unregulated, bureaucratic private insurance industry,” said Richard Kirsch, National Campaign Manager, Health Care for America Now. “With Senator Obama’s signature, we are taking a major step towards getting the next President and Congress to make comprehensive health care reform a priority in 2009.”

John McCain’s plan is anything but acceptable. Since it’s all about saving money and nothing else, he proposes, according to the WSJ: McCain Plans Federal Health Cuts…Medicare, Medicaid Spending Would Be Reduced to Offset Proposed Tax Credit
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Sen. McCain’s senior policy adviser, said Sunday that the campaign has always planned to fund the tax credits, in part, with savings from Medicare and Medicaid. Those government health-care programs serve seniors, poor families and the disabled. Medicare spending for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 is estimated at $457.5 billion.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/6/124346/441/758/621648

Those of us who analyze health policy and trends for a living have struggled to follow John McCain’s health plan through its many seemingly-improvised changes. First he was taxing health benefits through both payroll and income tax. Then he said he only intended to apply income tax, which meant that his plan would create even larger deficits. Now he says there won’t be deficits, because he’s going to make up the cost of those tax credits by slashing Medicare and Medicaid.

When a candidate suddenly, almost whimsically changes the way he proposes to handle $1.3 trillion – which is the amount of money his plan puts in play over the next ten years – it’s time to get nervous.

We already knew the McCain plan was going to cost most Americans money (in at least three different ways.) Now we know it could jeopardize their medical care when they get older, too. The end result of this off-the-cuff planning could change the way Americans receive, or don’t receive, medical care in this country…at least three kinds of health “tax increases” (more accurately described as increased personal cost) under the McCain plan: a “slow bleed” for people who retain coverage as the tax credit falls behind inflation, a $,7000-plus spike for people who lose their coverage immediately, and an increase in out-of-pocket costs (and denials, etc.) for people who still have insurance. What do we get in return? According to that neutral study, three million uninsured would gain coverage – briefly. After five years the number of uncovered would go up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/mccains-erratic-health-st_b_132242.html

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WRONG.

All the MII (Medical Insurance Industry) wants from us is our history of what we have, or had before being insured by them. So they can BETTER DENY US.

The could careless about making fewer mistakes, don’t give a crap about saving providers from making phone calls, and for sure will not in out lifetimes pass long the savings if any they claim they hope to make… To the employers, and the members…

DO NOT FOR ANY REASONS THINK THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE FULL ACCESS TO YOUR MEDICAL FILES NOW.

They stae they will make them online for you to access all the time… That means so can they as they now hold the records.

IGNORE the fact that Microsoft is partner, and realize no matter who is partner with the Medical Insurance Industry… Know one thing is going to happen.

FORCED ISOLATION.

That is the fact that the elderly and people with disabilities face everyday. And, now the medical insurance industry wants to do the same thing to all people who are covered.

Why do this? Think about it.

What better way to control people as in Uncle Sam here… Than to control access to health care?

If we are worried about out medical condition being covered by our medical insurance company… Guess what we will not notice… Being RAPED as a bail out is passed in the middle of night… Or as it is allowed full access to our Prescription HISTORIES… You may say, who cares. I changed my name… That’s just it, these medical companies will track down our records from birth if they can. They will use Social Securuty #’s to ID people and follow their life use of prescriptions. Not to make ourlives any easier.

To deny us the access to any and all medical service when we need it most.

And, what better tool to use to control as many people who think they are free as we in the USA?

Without access to health care… GAME OVER. PERIOD.

We can’t argue, we can fight and worse we have no idea what rights we have or don’t because we have been trained to trust the Government and companies around us…

Now it’s time to WAKE UP.

And, I will be posting direct to the point videos sharing what has been done, and looks to be done by the MII…

As we lemmings bend over and take it for all it’s worth… We are being RAPED.

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McCain: http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/bg2198.cfm

Here are three things to know about the candidates’ health care plans:

1) McCain wants to give individuals and families control over health care decisions. Obama wants the government to control health care decisions.

2) McCain wants to expand health care options. Obama wants to limit health care options.

3) Both candidates want to improve quality and lower the cost of health care, but they have different ideas on how to get there.

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