McCain introduced at health care event by health care lobbyist.
McCain introduced at health care event by health care lobbyist.
At his health care policy event yesterday at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Florida, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was introduced by the institute’s chairman, former Republican senator Connie Mack. But, as Hotline reports, Mack is more than just a chairman. He’s also a registered state lobbyist “advocating for health insurance companies“:
According to the official site of the Florida Legislature, Mack is registered in 2008 to lobby for Prestige Health Choice, a Florida company. The co. is “filing to become approved by the state of Florida as a Provider Service Network,” and according to a company release dated Nov. 16, 2007, “Prestige will first provide Medicaid managed care services to Florida residents.”
According to Hotline’s Jennifer Skalka, “the McCain campaign lobbied On Call feverishly to tank” its reporting on Mack’s role as a lobbyist, calling the story “ludicrous, absurd and ridiculous.”
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But, but, but Mcbush has…ahem….”distanced” himself from lobbyists. He said so. He doesn’t lie.
Yeah, right.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:57 amHe is still such a loser.
Just because it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, doesn’t mean it’s a duck.
We should give the same benefit of the doubt to lobbyists….
April 30th, 2008 at 11:00 amOne mans (McInsane) lobbyist is another mans (patient) exocutioner.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:09 amJebus. It’s the friggin’ Republican MAFIA.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:17 amThere is no conflict of interest here. Mack’s role as a lobbyist is totally unrelated to Mack’s role as a lobbyist. Next question.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:21 amAnd check out McCain’s wonderful plan- he wants to do away with employer sponsored health care, which covers 60% of Americans now, & force us to buy health insurance from private companies.
AND, McBush sees no need to make the private companies accept any pre-existing health conditions, which damn near all of us have:
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/mccain-health-plan-millions-lose-coverage-health-costs-worsen-and-insurance-and-drug-indu
April 30th, 2008 at 11:27 amI wouldn’t characterize Mr Mack as a ‘health care lobbyist’
More like a ‘health insurance corporatewhore’
April 30th, 2008 at 11:30 amIf McCain wins in November, there is something seriously wrong with a good part of the American people. I gues 20- 30 years of dumbing down does have it’s benefits. Can anyone say “Reality TV?”
April 30th, 2008 at 11:30 amHeh. This is the biggest reality show ever:
SURVIVOR: AMERICA
We’re all getting kicked off the island, people.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:34 amMcCain’s supporter, Hagee, called the Catholic church ‘The Great Whore’.
I guess this makes McCain, ‘The Great American Political Whore’.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:36 amNow we know the reason for all the holes in McCain’s Health Care Plan. He has to get all the lobbyists in a row and make sure they all can agree on one plan. Which should be titled “Health Plan of the Few “ .
April 30th, 2008 at 11:43 amMcCain’s wearing his irony proudly all over his face.
Is that why he’s so ghostly white, or is that just the lack of blood flow in his decrepit body?
April 30th, 2008 at 12:21 pmQuestion for Senator John Sidney McCain III:
In your proposed health care system, would coverage be provided for your trollopyc*nt wife’s pre-existing drug addiction condition?
April 30th, 2008 at 12:28 pmIf McBush becomes Predident with a Democratic Congress, “Pocket Veto” will take on a whole new hue!
April 30th, 2008 at 12:59 pmHe is so out of touch with this issue and the country. His health care plan is just as bad as what this country has know,he thinks rebates will work when low income and the poor cannot pay any deductable due to the high price of food and fuel and housing that eats up most of their budget.What a maroon he is thinking people are going to buy into this plan and his 100 years in Iraq and his tax cuts for the wealthy and corporatist that are running Washinton.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:03 pmIf this doesn’t show people how out of touch McCain is on health care (and many other things) nothing will. The health care industry would love nothing more than the status quo. Anyone who talks about changing health care and includes insurance companies simply doesn’t get it. Health care should not be a “for profit” business. Everyone needs health care (or will, at some point) and it should be universally available. People who say they don’t want to pay a tax for people to have health care don’t realize they already are paying it – only it’s called an insurance premium.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:19 pmOne question will destroy McShames health care plan;
Mr. McCain will you mandate all insurance companies prohibiting them from turning down applicants with a prior medical condition? and as a follow up…. If you will not mandate the the insurance companies, how will people with past conditions or with current conditions find affordable health care? The key word is Affordable Mr. McCain!
Also Mr. McCain, How can you say people will be able to make there own decision on health care, when a policy holder must get permission for treatment prior to treatment? And when a life is on the line, and treatment is turned down, will the policy holders be able to sue the insurance companies?
This is a shame….plane and simple. HR676 BILL IN CONGRESS. READ IT, CALL YOUR REP. SEN. PRES. AND DEMAND THE BILL BE INTRODUCED. IT’S THE ONLY SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM FOR THIS COUNTRY.
Oh, one last question… Mr. McCain, if we have the best accsess to health care as you state, why do we have 40million uninsured? While other industrialized nations cover all of there citizens?
April 30th, 2008 at 2:15 pm#9 – That said it all. Survivor America!!! Damm funny but sad, it’s true.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:22 pmOne last point, how many of you know that Chris Revees (Superman)died a pennyless man. His wife, who died a year later was broke when she got cancer. Robin Williams payed for their health care. Why wont the media tell us that? Bunch of Morons…. To ashamed to admitt that no matter how much money you have, it’s all going to the insurance companies if you get sick.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:31 pmI’ve said it before and I say it again: One of the top reasons John McCain hasn’t given details on most of his policies is they are being created by lobbyists and neocons or neocon lobbyists. The other reasons being he lacks even the basic understanding of economics, healthcare, etc., and by securing his nomination early he doesn’t have to.
We’ve already had one president too many who doesn’t have a clue about policy. No matter our differences, let’s be damn sure we don’t do it again any time soon.
-AF
April 30th, 2008 at 7:21 pmAndrew Sully Is A Fraud
Well now that President Obama is in office he will follow through with his promises to change healthcare.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:42 pmJ.C. Lewis
February 24th, 2009 at 1:46 pm