McCain Kicks Off Health Care Tour At Children’s Hospital That Supported SCHIP Expansion He Opposed
McCain Kicks Off Health Care Tour At Children’s Hospital That Supported SCHIP Expansion He Opposed
Kicking off his “Call to Action Tour” today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) toured Miami Children’s Hospital, where “he met and listened to some of its young patients and their parents.” In remarks delivered at the hospital, McCain pledged that he would “work to eliminate the worries over the availability and cost of health care”:
As President, I pledge to preserve the foundations that deliver innovation and hope to those who are in need of modern medicine. I will work to eliminate the worries over the availability and cost of health care that trouble the waking hours and disturb the sleep of more Americans than any other single domestic issue.
McCain’s use of the Florida children’s hospital to launch his health care-focused tour is ironic considering McCain’s recent vote against expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The expansion that McCain opposed would have extended coverage to a significant portion of Florida’s 658,000 uninsured children.
The expansion passed despite McCain’s protestations, but President Bush vetoed it in October, which McCain said was the “Right call by the president.” At the time, pediatricians around the country protested Bush’s veto, including doctors at Miami Children’s Hospital:
About 100 people—including pediatric residents, faculty members and community parents—gathered at the School of Medicine on Oct. 2 to protest President George Bush’s threatened veto of a bill that would reauthorize and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Act, or SCHIP. […]
More than 30 institutions signed on to hold similar rallies, including Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Miami Children’s Hospital and Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
In his remarks today, the only reference McCain made to children’s health care was to to say that he supported “public health programs” to combat childhood obesity.
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April 28th, 2008 at 6:05 pmMcCain Kicks Off Health Care Tour At Children’s Hospital That Supported SCHIP Expansion He Opposed
- - Which McCain aide had to inform the senator that he opposed SCHIP expansion?
April 28th, 2008 at 6:06 pmThis is standard operating procedure for republicans. Use the group most likely to be hurt by your proposal as a backdrop. If you pretend to care you don’t have actually do anything. If you’re a republican.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:08 pmIt’s not healthy to regularly poop trolls as McCain does. Turns out, it’s more expensive than a “blooming trollup” at Outback.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pmlittle bastard stabbed me in the ass with a fork.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pmThat right. Got to get those kids dependent on the government as soon as possible.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:16 pmSpeaking of trolls out of McCain’s behind..
April 28th, 2008 at 6:17 pmAnd what else can these kids rely on, VA Voter? The run around with private government (insurance companies), unaffordable premiums, deductables and co-pays?
April 28th, 2008 at 6:19 pmHeh. The phrase “contradiction in terms” flies right over Grampy McWarmonger’s pointy old head…
April 28th, 2008 at 6:32 pmAre we gonna have to hear about the Fair Tax again?
April 28th, 2008 at 6:32 pmVaV - nah. Just let ‘em die - and decrease the surplus population, right?
STFU, you heartless bastard.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:34 pmMcWars Says:
Speaking of trolls out of McCain’s behind..
Yep. I was waiting for VA Voter too. And he didn’t disappoint.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:34 pmHypocrisy has no meaning for a guy that doesn’t know what it means ;-)
April 28th, 2008 at 6:43 pmSo, did anyone in the audience dare raise the question about his ambiguity, or was it just another photo-op, no questions asked?
April 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pmMcHYPOCRITE!
April 28th, 2008 at 6:54 pmMcCain’s plan is not only ignoring people who already don’t have health insurance. It will also put 158 million insured people in great jeopardy of losing coverage also. More planning went into his health-care focus tour than into his actual Health-Care Plan for America. Republican campaign dollars hard at work to lie, deceive, and cheat the American Citizens.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:55 pmHe should have been burnt in effigy in front of the hospital for hypocrisy. As he said, “As President, I pledge to preserve the foundations that deliver innovation…” Translation: I pledge to see that the for-profit healthcare system in this country will NOT be threatened by any change.
However, without working toward that very change, he will NEVER be able to deliver on the second part of that statement, “…hope to those who are in need of modern medicine. I will work to eliminate the worries over the availability and cost of health care that trouble the waking hours and disturb the sleep of more Americans than any other single domestic issue.”
April 28th, 2008 at 6:57 pmIt is always all about the photo-op and nothing about the policy, at least with Republican candidates. They are shameless. The other thing that is obvious is that the health care providers and executive management have little in common or McCain would have been told to go have his picture taken someplace else.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:58 pmVA Voter Says:
That right. Got to get those kids dependent on the government as soon as possible.
That’s right VA Voter. So much better that the kids be dependent on corporate-controlled medical care instead (if they can even get it), isn’t it? You sir, are a fool and a tool.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:00 pmOT, but i just heard something on the news that i want to point out here…
seems hillary now agrees with mcSAME about the “gas tax holiday”…
proof that she doesn’t read, nor heed, ThinkProgress:
[…] To find out how little money McCain’s gas tax “holiday” really delivers for average Americans, go to the Wonk Room.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:09 pmJohn-Boy was wearing his favorite shoes again today - FlipFlops
April 28th, 2008 at 7:13 pmHow lovely, katy. Hillary’s for McCain before she’s against McCain — if she’s nominated. If not, she’ll really be for McCain.
If Republiland, if you’re in need of a solution, think you can fix it by giving the problem more power.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:24 pmKeep racking up the flip-flops & hypocricy, McBush– we’re listening, saving, & remembering. What a loser.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:36 pmYes, he’s going to “work to eliminate the worries over the availability and cost of health care” but not actually PROVIDE health care to children.
Gee, as a mom, I guess we don’t really need health care, I just need to stop worrying about not having it! Perhaps Mr. McCain will fund a “stop worrying” pill that will mean huge profits for Big Pharma.
PEACE
April 28th, 2008 at 7:58 pmVA Voter Says:
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That right. Got to get those kids dependent on the government as soon as possible.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Because when they become adults , they will already be 2 steps ahead in knowing how the oil and pharmeceutical companies feel , having the horseshit GOP and their jock sniffing tools like yourself in their pockets……………
April 28th, 2008 at 8:22 pmDAMN Hypocrite, and our Congressional delegation, both Senators and our Representative voted right along with the Republican Line not giving one thought to the children of our State. Only two of our representatives supported the SCHIPS program, Thompson and Taylor, both Democrats. The Representative from our district, Chip Pickering a lapdog of Bush represents the Republican Party, not the children of his State that would have benefited had this legislation passed.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:16 pmHealth Care for kids is something that tugs at the hearts of most Americans. It is just beyond belief that anyone could vote against it, or worst, veto it. This is another ready made ad against McCain! It may be just one more reason to never, never again elect a rethug, but we should never again elect a rethug for any office in this country!
April 29th, 2008 at 10:21 amLet’s not forget McCorpse and his zillionaire Bimbo Barbie benefit from government sponsored health care by virtue of his status as a senator who never shows up for work.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:57 amStaging a photo-op with some of the same children on whom he previously turned his back for no other reason than to further his own political agenda…
Despicable.
Then again, why should we be surprised? Bush has done much the same thing at least a couple of times (has everyone forgotten the fake turkey photo from 2003?) — and since McCain seems eager to prove that he’s like Bush in many other respects, why not this one as well?
As far as I’m concerned, people like this might as well literally sign their names in blood on Old Scratch’s contract and have done with it — because they already did so in effect a long time ago. Doing something like this does nothing except serve to suggest that the person in question has no shame, no heart, no conscience, and no soul.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:13 pmIs this guy a prince or what?
May 24th, 2008 at 2:20 amVa Voter, you are just bitter because you have a genuine war hero for a Senator and that same man actually has a heart. Something you certainly lack.
Another thing you lack: The critical thinking ability to figure out that the uninsured people about whom you find to be so repugnant are using the most expensive care in the world: American emergency rooms. For a visit to the ER for a child’s ear infection can cost upwards of $1000. My family doctor charges $30. The ER does not collect the $1000 because indigent families do not have it and cannot get it. My doctor gets it because it is a small price to pay for good health.
Of course, folks like you want to reduce the surplus population, right?
May 24th, 2008 at 2:25 amThen again, why should we be surprised? Bush has done much the same thing at least a couple of times (has everyone forgotten the fake turkey photo from 2003?) — and since McCain seems eager to prove that he’s like Bush in many other respects, why not this one as well?
As far as I’m concerned, people like this might as well literally sign their names in blood on Old Scratch’s contract and have done with it — because they already did so in effect a long time ago. Doing something toshiba satellite 5100 battery,toshiba pa3128u battery like this does nothing except serve to suggest that the person in question has no shame, no heart, no conscience, and no soul.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:35 am