McCain campaign denies Goodman is ‘an advisor.’
McCain campaign denies Goodman is ‘an advisor.’
Yesterday, McCain health care architect John Goodman told the Dallas Morning News yesterday that there are no “uninsured” people in America because Americans have access to emergency rooms, which is a radical view of health care in this country. Now, the McCain campaign is trying to distance itself from Goodman, telling The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn that “he is not an advisor“:
Although the Morning News article reported Goodman as a McCain advisor, the McCain campaign says he is NOT an advisor. That’s obviously a big distinction so I’ve corrected the item, which described Goodman as part of the campaign, as well as the update below. I apologize for the error.
But in July, when Goodman wrote a WSJ op-ed praising McCain’s health care plan, he was labeled “an unpaid adviser to the McCain campaign” by the paper.
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Why didn’t the campaign the WSJ article? Inquiring minds want to know.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:54 pmWhy didn’t the campaign pan the WSJ article? Inquiring minds want to know.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:55 pmNot another unpaid adviser!
August 28th, 2008 at 2:56 pmIsn’t it great that mccain attracts so many “unpaid advisors”. They will reap their payment if mccain gets in, bigtime !
August 28th, 2008 at 2:59 pmSo, adviser = not adviser.
Got it.
P.S. I’m tired of people mocking John McCain by saying “Get off my lawn.”
It should be “Get off my lawns.”
August 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pmStaffer: “John Goodman stuck his foot in his mouth in a WSJ article today. And the story refers to him as an advisor to your campaign.”
McNumbNuts: “Well, the solution is simple, stupid. Just change his title on the roster from ‘advisor’ to ‘consultant’. Just like the way that we solved the uninsured problem . . . poof! No more advisor problem.”
Staffer: “Yes, your highness.”
August 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pm“We like what they say about John”-unpaid adviser
Callous b*st*rd sticks his foot in his mouth-”he is not an adviser”
Do you detect a pattern?
August 28th, 2008 at 3:03 pm.
John McCain says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLFXVsBpiQs
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August 28th, 2008 at 3:12 pm#5 LFG,
ROFLMAO!!!
“Get off my lawnS!”
August 28th, 2008 at 3:14 pmNow, the McCain campaign is trying to distance itself from Goodman, telling The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn that “Neither John McCain nor John McCain’s advisors speak for the McCain campaign.”
August 28th, 2008 at 3:15 pmI’m a bit slow, so bear with me.
McCain doesn’t speak for the McCain campaign. Okay, got it.
Rove is not an advisor to the McCain campaign. Still with ya.
The McCain campaign advisors only speak for the McCain campaign when they are saying something positive, but are otherwise not a part of the campaign. I’m getting fuzzy here…
So who’s left?
Oh, that’s right, I forgot! The lobbyists. The lobbyists speak for the McCain campaign. The same lobbyists who wrote the Medicare Part D drug give away and who wrote the energy policy (sorry, had to stop laughing before I could continue) are the true policy makers, advisors and spokepeople for the McCain campaign.
Did I miss anyone?
PEACE
August 28th, 2008 at 3:16 pmBut the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)
“So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime,” Mr. Goodman said. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.
If he helped craft McCain’s health care policy, he’s an advisor. But his solution to the problem is truly unique. Just don’t count ‘em!! Idiot!
August 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pmYes, uninsured have “access” to emergency rooms, but they get stuck with a $100,000 b ill when they leave and must pay or go into bankruptcy and lose their home. This happens about a million times every year in the USA—-not in any developed country in the world because they have universal healthcare.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:32 pmFrom the Dallas Morning News linked to by TP: “But the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy An**ysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)
“So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime,” Mr. Goodman said. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.”
If he helped craft McCain’s health care policy, he’s an advisor. But his solution to the problem is truly unique. Just don’t count ‘em!! Idiot!
August 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pmI’ve been to the emergency room a few times in CA (where I live). Once I tore ligaments in my ankle, they denied care and sent me home. I had to tape my legs every day for about three years and live in incredible pain.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pmAnother time I fractured my arm, they put it in a sling and sent me home along with a $3,000 bill.
The last time I had a 3rd degree shoulder seperation – my arm was hanging off my body. They put it in a sling and sent me home. I had to rehab myself (without instruction) for about 12 months.
The myth of health care in this country is just that, a myth. When I hear these rich aholes spout off about the state of health care in this country it makes we want to make them need some.
Goodman is the same kind of unpaid adviser that Rove is. Quit your whining Grampy.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:06 pmDon’t feel along Rich. Even if you have health insurance the treatment is not so hot and the patients portion of the bill is still going to be $3,000.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:10 pmIf someone would just tell the truth…a single payer system would take 1.5trillion dollars from insurance companies and put it into the hands of american people. How you ask??
With co-pay and deductables an average person will pay any where between $2500 to $5000 per year.
An average policy for a family of 4 is $12,500 per year plus co-pays and deductables.
If a single payer system was enacted, the average america would save between $7000 to $13000 per year. FACT!!!
IF America spent 5% of its GDP we would all be covered with universal health care. No more bankrupt families, no more debt of families who had treatment.
Sad part is if we cut military spending from $750 billion to $350 billion (still that is more then the entire world combined) we all would have health care.
THE TRUTH…THE RICH WILL NEVER WANT TO WAIT BEHIND SOMEONE WITH LESS MONEY FOR TREATMENT (IT USED TO BE A COLORED PERSON).
August 28th, 2008 at 4:15 pmRich H Says
August 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
The myth of health care in this country is just that, a myth. When I hear these rich aholes spout off about the state of health care in this country it makes we want to make them need some.
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The rich aholes will only tell you to quit breaking parts of your body. That’s their idea of “health care”.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:29 pmI have a cousin who happens to be a GP. She said that if she was able to assume the position of an HMO – providing care and referals to specialists, she could double her income without copays. Of course she offers a 24/7 practice with house calls and an open clinic. She gets about $45 per hour in fees (After paying staff). You pay twice that for an auto mechanic who supplies his or her tools.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:36 pmWaltTheMan, there are so many hands out grabbing cash between the purchaser of health insurance (employer, union trust, individual, even government) and the provider of care that less than 40% of the dollars paid to insurance companies go to the docs, hospitals, labs, nurses, etc.
As to the issue of this mouthpiece being an advisor to McCain’s campaign, I’m not buying it:
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/28/mccain-campaign-plays-dumb-on-health-adviser.aspx
PEACE
August 28th, 2008 at 4:49 pmGrampy McSame says – My friends back in the day we all had people who would advise us, yes sir, I was a POW, did you know that, well anyway I liked the advice I was getting because I would make more clams because of that advice, POW, and my friends would get more clams also, we like getting lots of clams, so I thought maybe if I had more advisors then I and my friends would get more clams, POW, much more than those little people, those dirty little “have nots”, thanks alot you little jerk, POW, now I have 149 advisors who tell what to think and how to say what I think, POW, now if they advise me and I don’t give them clams they can possibly be on my staff, now could they, did I mention that I was a POW for 5 and a half years, I wasn’t getting advise there, no sir….ooops, I think I sat on a lobbyist.
Well, the dim bulbs in society will surely believe you POW John, but us, not so much.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:55 pmJohn Goodman is the dumbest man to ever be kicked off radio. He also has the worst hairdo.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:55 pmJohn Goodman? Madman Mundt…?
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August 28th, 2008 at 5:14 pmMcCain’s merry band of Morons. Interesting how he only has 150 lobbyists on his staff!
August 29th, 2008 at 4:44 am