The real cheap shot here is the fact that McCain trades on his mediocre military service as being something “heroic.”

In a country which has cheapened the term “hero” to include people who are paid obscene amounts for doing nothing more than playing games, it’s probably just as unavoidable as it is meaningless.

I believe he means Medicare trust fund. (Medicaid is a program run by the states for the poor; Medicare is the existing federal program for seniors.

So either he’s planning on tackling the problem of preexisting conditions by dumping it on the states, or he’s having another Sunni-Shiite type senior moment…

Johnny McSicko thinks it to be a “CHEEP SHOT” that I think Cheney Care is good for me…
I suppose that thinks me to be a bitter elitist… YES?

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To understand what McCain is going to come up with for health care, you need only to look up the National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care, brought to us by Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbuer and Novelli. Their report says long term care should be the ‘Shared Responsibility of Government, Individuals and the Private Sector’, with funding an automatic payroll deduction. In other words, the working taxpayer will pay for it, the funding will be socialized, but the profits will be privatized and government regulation will make it legal. That is their pattern. McCain’s plan will be the same pattern.

About 3 weeks ago a lady I work with collapsed at her desk and had to be taken to the hospital via ambulance. The incident had been caused by a blood clot that had moved into one of her lungs.

She’s OK now and back at work. Today, word comes that the insurance company she is with (provided by the employer) is considering refusing to pay for her hospital bills because they consider the blood clot a “pre-existing condition.”

Some great system.

Secondly, and this is what I think is most disgusting about this argument, is SO WHAT?? What if Canada and England’s health care plan is poor. Why does that matter? How does anyone else’s poor health care plan stand in the way of the United States having a great one? Is McCain, or any other detractor from the possibility of national health care implying that we don’t have the resources? That America doesn’t have the know-how, or the will? Listen, people, this is how they shape the argument. By finding some fault with some other country’s health care plan, and I propose it means NOTHING. We need only, as a nation, to have the will to achieve this goal. We need the vision to believe that this nation can accomplish this most admirable goal of taking care of ALL of our sick. We don’t need to settle for a second rate system if we believe that excellent health care is a right for all of our citizens. So, next time you hear someone talk about the long wait for care, or whatever fault they can find in overseas health care, ask them squarely what the hell that has to do with us here in America? Ask them are they so unpatriotic that they can’t envision the United States doing better than these other countries? If this is what we, as a nation, want, ..no.. DEMAND, we can get it done.

The sooner we stop throwing away billions on misguided wars, the sooner we can make this come true.

Anyone who protests now can be suppressed and both now and in the future certain demographics will never know what a healthy life is and thus will be less likely to complain at all.

Think about what’s cheap to eat…. salt, salt, sugar, sugar, salt, bread.

The voters will recoginize he is scrambling everytime she brings it up and he doesn’t have a suitable response or can’t explain the medical proceedures that is doesn’t cover. That is going to be a huge issue for this election. With so many lost jobs over the last 3 years and millions without health coverage, the Democrats will be able to nail the old man to the wall on this issue.

Getting a “cheap shot” reference from McNumbNuts should be considered high praise second only to being called a “jerk”.

Via C&L.

Oh, and in addition to #21, the D/L/Ps still stay sober.

Hey, speak for yourself!